Matthew Boedy wraps up his series on The Job Search in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Read Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, and Post 4. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Post 5: Moving Into God’s Will
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The Job Search, Post 4: Decision
Post 4 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Read Post 1, Post 2, and Post 3. One of the scholars I study in my field began his career in literature studies, especially drama. He wrote this: Currently there is a lot of talk of ‘decision-making.' Often the decisions are conceived after the analogy of voting, or purchasing, or giving answers to questionnaires, or the taking of risks calculated on the basis of probability. Or there are these tense moments of decision in … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Post 4: Decision
The Job Search, Part 3: The Campus Visit
Post 3 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Find Post 1 here and Post 2 here. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 3: The Campus Visit
The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process
Post 2 of Matt Boedy's The Job Search Series in ESN's Navigating Career Stages collection. Find Post 1 here. As a reminder, my defining thesis for these posts is: we need to make the job process into the ‘will of God.' Or in other words, we need to discover how God can work in us and among us during the search process. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 2: The Interview Process
The Job Search, Part 1: The Application
If you piled it all up, there are many mountains of information, advice, etc. on the academic job search process. It is different for not only fields of study, but also personal and financial situations. There are, in other words, many things that make your particular job search idiosyncratic. … [Read more...] about The Job Search, Part 1: The Application