I had a great conversation with Kate Storey-Fisher (NYU) today about her preparations for the academic job market. We talked about places, applications, proposals, and so on. In particular, we spent time talking about the structure of a good job proposal, which I think involves lots of scales from very very big picture down to very specific ideas for particular shovel-ready projects. We also talked about what makes Storey-Fisher unique on the market and how to talk about that uniqueness in the application. I think an odd thing about applications is that you have to narrate your work—which usually is a set of random and contingent projects—like it is a scientific program with coherence. This is odd, but not really irrelevant, since the ability to narrate it well shows an ability to make connections and see themes.
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