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 The 2012 OCIS Doctoral Consortium will be held on August 3-4 in Boston,Massachusetts,USA. This year’s consortium should be a great opportunity for doctoral students to gather valuable feedback on their dissertations and to network with other students and prominent faculty members. Faculty advisers that have already confirmed their participation in the consortium include . . . →Read More:Deadline for OCIS Doctoral Consortium is Quickly Approaching
Then you’ve arrived at the right location! The 5 most recent IS teaching/research job positions are now displayed on the right-hand column of our site. This information is regularly updated,so keep checking back to see if there’s a job for you! Where do you look for OCIS-related academic positions? A few sites I keep on tab include the Chronicle of Higher Ed and AIS Placement Services. For those of you who are in the job market right now: Syracuse University School of Information Studies just opened up new positions. IST is a wonderful,very collaborative place with a great culture. The Ph.D. program is also great,and Ph.D. students collaborate actively with professors as part of their research practica,or voluntarily, . . . →Read More:Syracuse University Opened Up New Positions for Fall 2008! For those of you who have procured,are currently seeking,or are planning to find a faculty position,where do you look for job postings? I imagine many of us turn to the AIS placement service web site,or perhaps The Chronicle’s web site. Are there other valuable sites? Does anyone visit individual college and . . . →Read More:Job Postings Hello everybody, with the new recruting starting soon,I thought it might be a good idea to share one of my projects with you. Starting last year,I manually mapped job openings onto google maps,which was quite laborious to say the least. Thanks to Yahoo,the job map now is dynamically updated and should be . . . →Read More:Map and RSS feed of current IS faculty openings Is anyone on the job market this year? If so,willing to share your experience so far? I plan on hitting the market next year,and I would love to hear and learn from the mistakes experiences of others. Image credit:rickz With placement activities at ICIS approaching in a week,I have a hunch some readers of this site are thinking about preperations for job interviews. The most useful resource I’ve found yet (via a link at ISWorld) is this comprehensive list of questions to prepare for,ask (by job title),and not . . . →Read More:Preparing for an academic job interview The New York Times recently published an interesting article on how the “Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns“. In contrast to the general tone of past press coverage,this article speaks out in favor of tenure-track professors. The shift from a tenured faculty results from financial pressures,administrators’ desire for more flexibility in hiring, . . . →Read More:The fall and rise of tenure-track |
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