Review of “On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search”

By Greg Beatty Sandra Barnes’ On the Market: Strategies for a Successful Academic Job Search is a useful, fascinating, and at times markedly depressing book. Let me address each of the volume’s qualities in turn. The utility of On the Market is unmistakable. No, I’ll go further. I wish I’d been given a copy of this book when I was considering graduate school. Granted, I would not have gone— it would have scared me away— but if I had gone anyway, I would have been much more prepared. This is because On the Market is above all a professional handbook. […]