An email list for government jobs (by Madeline Martin-Seaver)

Madeline Martin-Seaver (postdoc, Auburn University) writes in:

I am a philosophy post-doc at Auburn and a longtime appreciator of the work you and your teammates do at the Cocoon! You’ve definitely helped me with my jobs and teaching.

I recently started an e-mail list compiling job USAJobs postings for which humanists might be good fits...The first post is here: https://andgovcheese.substack.com/p/jobs-for-humanists-64 It’s on Substack, but free.

I also have a little blurb on the “about” page..: https://andgovcheese.substack.com/about

"Wine and Government Cheese is a weekly e-mail of federal jobs for people with advanced degrees in the humanities and social sciences. You have a particular set of skills. Allegedly, they’re fungible. Also, there are 10k openings on the USAJobs website and the search engine doesn’t let you exclude terms or reverse sort. W&GC points out at least some of the positions that are 1) open to the public and, 2) applicable to people with MAs or PhDs in the humanities and the humanistic social sciences.

Subscribing gets you a weekly e-mail with highlights from the job descriptions and links to the questionnaires so you can do a better job searching and applying for jobs."

This looks awesome. I thank Madeline for her kind words about the blog, for her work putting her initiative together, and for sharing it with us!

Comments

[Tom2]

A nice idea! Two things for those interested in government jobs:

(1) Several federal agencies (e.g. the CIA) don't use USAJobs. These agencies often have positions which are nice fits for philosophers.

(2) Don't forget that there are jobs with state and municipal governments, as well. So if, for example, there's a particular city or part of the country you want to live, it's worth figuring out where the relevant governments advertise their jobs.

[Madeline Martin-Seaver]

Hi, Tom2! Thank you for sharing both points. I may try and incorporate them into occasional newsletters posts. I remember looking at jobs for the state of Alabama a few months ago and seeing they were looking for historians - I think that is probably true in other states, too.