Meet Helen Burgess, super star! Slayer of search committees!We used to say that he (the computer geek) was more employable than her (the english prof).
No longer! We moved to West Virginia so I could catch a rare beast- an SE job. Then Helen went looking for jobs- sent out 10 resumes, got 6 preliminary interviews, 3 offers for on-site interviews, then got a job offer on her first on-site visit.
Let's review. 10:6:3:1. That's almost the golden ratio. Certainly, they are exciting numbers here in Chez Burgess-Menzies.
And all this at a time when there is much published lamentation about the lack of jobs in English: "many desperate, hollow-eyed job-seekers- a sea of unemployed misery gives me something one might call sympathetic nausea - many of whom are bound for adjunct hell- they just keep coming -- like Steinbeck's Oakies puttering into California in their jalopies " (from chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/01/2007011901c/careers.html)
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Congrats, Helen! Don't leave us in suspense—are you going to take the gig?
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