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Attention, Job Hunters

Going on the job market this fall? Tell us all about it

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By DENISE K. MAGNER

The Chronicle's Careers section is looking for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and administrators who will be on the job market in the 2008-9 academic year and would be interested in keeping a diary of their job search.

Since 1998 we've featured the job-market stories of academics in a variety of disciplines. They've written regular, first-person accounts, throughout the year, of their attempts to find a faculty or administrative job in academe, and in a few cases, a nonacademic job. (You can read some of last year's columns at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/
author_list_fp.htm.)

If you have a flair for writing, here's an opportunity to use it and get paid. We select up to 10 diarists a year; each writes three to five columns over the course of the year about his or her job search. Those selected will be paid for each column they write that is accepted for publication.

What you need to do:

• Send us a sample column submission by September 8. If selected, your column will be published on our site in the fall as the first entry in your job-search diary.

• The sample column should be 1,200 to 1,600 words, written in a conversational, journalistic style. It should tell us about your background, career goals, constraints, and job situation in the context of broader issues involving the job market in your field and academic culture.

• Humor is a plus.

• Be creative, but not with the facts. We are not interested in fictionalized accounts.

• Some diarists write under their own names, while others choose to use pseudonyms. Either way, we will need to know your name, institution, and discipline. Please make that information clear when you e-mail your submission.

• E-mail your submissions and questions to jobdiary@chronicle.com. You may paste your column submission directly into an e-mail message, or send it as an attachment in Microsoft Word. Diary entries will be edited for grammar, style, taste, and length.

Besides submissions from doctoral students and Ph.D.'s who are looking for their first tenure-track job, we also welcome submissions from other academics who plan to spend this year hunting for a new position, including adjunct faculty members, professors already tenured or on the tenure track, and administrators. If you are part of a dual-career academic couple, you are welcome to write a diary together.