I know there are some who hold that this isn't a big deal. And I know that in this already thin market, the Post-Eastern job market will be negligible anyway. But nonetheless I think it's stupid that the APA does not coordinate its JFP publish dates with its meeting dates.
The Central Division meets February 15-18, and the third JFP publishes on Feb 22. So: no interviews at the Central.
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The Pacific is early this year. Perhaps they are thinking that the Pacific will serve as the interview conference.
There can easily be interviews at the Central if departments get on board with the viable alternative to JFP.
The web ads get posted year-round. There were in fact some, but very few, interviews at Central last year, according to the ads.
Fuck interviews. Departments should just intuit who is best by the fonts candidates use in their applications.
@anon 2:21: I'm applying exclusively in comic sans this year.
I understand that there are other ways for departments who want to interview candidates post-Eastern to do so. My complaint really has more to do with the APA's silence about this change-- the publication of the JFP's used to be coordinated with the meetings. Seemed sensible. It's no longer this way. Why the change?
Hint: They didn't notice and don't care.
WV: nalike
In response to Spiros' last comment:
Again (she wails), what has happened to the APA? It used to function relatively well, at least for the paper and paper days. And, there were always responsive, decent human beings whom one could engage.
I wish Mike Kelly would do a 'tell-all.'
I predict/hope that the JFP will begin to decline in its relevance given superior open options such as the phylo.info/jobs site. (Aren't "publication dates" and newsprint circulars already well on their way to irrelevance?) Perhaps this credible competition will spur the APA to get their act together ( . . . and perhaps monkeys will fly out of my butt).
The best applications are clearly in Wingdings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM
Slater,
Agreed. Still, I'm with CTS in wondering how in the world the APA managed to get *worse* than it was only a few years ago. I would have thought it conceptually impossible. So much for those intuitions....
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