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OP, you need to do some placement research and be sure to get in with an advisor who is willing to make the calls on your behalf to get you one of those interviews. It's literally the dirty secret that they never tell you.[/quote]

No kidding. I'm in another social science field, and the department graduates about 10 PhD's per year. However, the department only has 1-2 position openings a year, due to someone retiring/dying, or leaving for another position. Other universities are in a similar situation. So where are all the jobs in academia for all these PhD's we're producing?

It's pretty common that a fresh PhD will be stuck as a contract lecturer getting paid to teach on a per-course basis at a couple community colleges and things like that. Not sure how they are able to pay off their student loans. They're earning $5k per course total.[/quote]

Amen. And once you're no longer fresh-on-the-market newly-minted PhD (and have failed to make it into the pool of 6-7 "hot" sought-after candidates that year, who get every single interview posted and have 3-4 offers to choose from), you may as well be dead to these schools the following year. Your academic tenure-track ship has sailed and it's off to adjunct living for you! Good luck!
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