This is just a quick note that signups for this year's Job-Market Mentoring Program will open a week from today, on Wednesday July 1st. For those unfamiliar with the program, here is a brief description:
This program aims to provide job-market mentoring to all those in need (regardless of background). The aim of this mentoring project is just what it sounds like: a scheme to enable job candidates in philosophy who face special challenges, including members of historically-marginalized groups as well as those with little access to mentoring (e.g., because their department or advisor does not offer this), to receive advice and support from more experienced members of the profession.
Additionally, because the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to severely impact the academic job-market, this year applicants will be able to request an academic or non-academic mentor (viz. mentoring for transitioning into non-academic industry). Because the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on us all, increasing our personal and professional workloads, we do not know how many mentors of each type we will get--and it may well be that willing mentors are in unusually short supply. However, we will do our best to get the word out and encourage potential mentors to sign up, and we will make as many mentoring matches as we can.
Finally, because Helen and I both expect our personal and professional workloads to be abnormally high beginning in mid-August (I serve as department chair and have other new family responsibilities in the fall), we also plan to have an abbreviated signup period this year, provisionally scheduled to run from July 1-August 1st. We will make as many matches as we can for the signups we receive during that period, so if you are in need of job-market mentoring, please do consider signing up. Our aim, as always, is to help as many job-candidates in need as we can.
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