Connie Lilly will be the Coordinator for the APA Placement Service at the 2004 Pacific Division Meeting. Questions concerning the Service should be directed to Connie at the American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, 31 Amstel Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19716. She can also be reached by telephone at (302) 831-3291, fax: (302) 831-8690 or Email: clilly@udel.edu.

APA Placement Service General Hours of Service Operation

Wednesday, March 24: Placement Service, 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 25: Placement Service, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Interview Rooms, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Friday, March 26: Placement Service, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Interview Rooms, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 27: Placement Service, 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Interview Rooms, 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

APA Placement Service Locations

The Placement Service will be located in the International Foyer & Ballroom as outlined below. For your convenience, maps of the hotel appear at the back of this issue.

Job Candidates - International Foyer

1. Candidate Numbers will be assigned at the Placement Desk.

2. The location of a Job Interview will be available from the Placement staff, or posted on the bulletin board at the information desk.

3. Additional "Request for Interview" forms will be available at the Placement Desk.

4. APA Membership Applications will be available at the APA Meeting Registration Desk.

5. Information and instructions for using the Service will be available at the Placement desk (also see following pages), and posted on the information bulletin board.

6. The mailboxes for Job Candidates will be located at the Placement Desk.

7. A complete set of Job Postings will be available at the Placement Desk.

8. A message for the APA Placement Ombudsperson can be left at the Placement Desk.

Interviewers - International Foyer

1. Interviewers check in here - as soon as possible upon arrival.

2. Payments for On-Site Interviewing Departments will be received here.

3. Space will be provided here for interviewers to check their files.

4. "Request for Interview" forms received from job candidates which have been reviewed by interviewers should be returned here.

Interviewing Area (tables) - International Ballroom

1. APA Interviewing Tables will be located here.

2. A list of interviewing table assignments will be posted on the Placement Information Bulletin Board.

3. In the event that additional space for interviewing is needed, we will post the additional location on the Placement Information Bulletin Board.

Information and Instructions for Job Candidates

Requirements for Using the Placement Service

1. You must be an APA member in order to use the Service. Placement is a benefit of membership for candidates, and there is no additional charge to use this service. Membership applications are available on the APA web site (www.apaonline.org) or by contacting the APA National Office (302) 831-1112, or at the Membership/Registration desk at the Meeting.

2. You MUST REGISTER for the meeting in order to use the Service.

• If you register in advance for the meeting and indicate that you will be a candidate (an advance registration form is located at the back of this issue), a candidate number will be assigned in the National Office and will appear on the back of your badge. You must pick up your badge from the Registration Desk prior to checking in with the Placement staff.

• If you register on-site for the meeting, present your badge to the Placement Staff, who will be available to assign you a candidate number in the "Placement Service" line.

What to Bring with You

1. Your copies of recent issues of Jobs For Philosophers.

2. Several copies of your curriculum vitae. If you run out of CVs at the meeting, the hotel has a copy center located in the Business Center.

How to Use the Placement Service

After you have picked up your registration materials from the APA Registration staff, you are ready to use the Service. If you do not yet have a candidate number on the back of your badge, first go to the "Placement Service" line, located in the International Foyer, to receive one.

Job Candidate's Area

The Job Candidate's Area will be located in the International Foyer where you will find a file folder (mailbox) with your candidate number on it. All communications addressed to you during the meeting will be placed there. Your folder contains:

1. "Request for Interview" forms. Additional forms will be available from the Placement staff. Be sure that your Placement Number appears on the top of all forms.

2. A "Locator" form for you to list your name and hotel address. Please do not remove this form from your folder. This is used only in the event that we need to contact you during the meeting.

Job Postings

New jobs (not having appeared in the Jobs for Philosophers) will be posted on a bulletin board in the Placement Service Area. You should check this board regularly for new postings. Each ad should contain instructions on how to apply.

Institutions That Have Checked In With Placement

The names of institutions that have registered to use the Service will be posted on the bulletin board (updated regularly) in alphabetical order. Each institution will indicate the following:

1. If the listing institution has checked in with Placement.

2. If the institution is accepting interview requests at the meeting.

3. If the institution will be interviewing by prearrangement only.

4. If the institution is only accepting application materials via mail/email (and where).

5. The relevant JFP for the institution's opening(s).

6. Where the institution plans on interviewing (Table with number assignment).

7. Miscellaneous notes deemed appropriate by the Placement staff or the institution.

Submitting An Interview Request Form

Complete the top portion of the "Request for Interview" form and attach a copy of your CV. Be sure that your candidate number appears on the top of all forms. After you have completed the necessary information, place your request form and CV in the box marked Requests for Interviews which will be prominently displayed on the Placement Service Desk. Your "Request" will be forwarded to the institution by a staff member.

Interviews

After your "Request" has been reviewed by a representative from the institution, the form will be returned to your file folder with the institution's response appearing on the bottom of the form. Check your file folder often so that you can be certain to receive your messages promptly.

By 1:00 p.m. on March 27, all "Requests" submitted by you should have been returned to your file folder, and you should remove them at that time. Occasionally, an institution may retain applications to review at a later date. If you applied for a job that had been posted and the institution did not check in with the Service during the meeting, it is suggested that you contact the institution by mail.

Interviewing Locations

Some departments will be conducting interviews at tables located in the International Ballroom. Other interviewing table locations will be posted if additional space is required. Each institution using a table for interviewing will be assigned a table number. The table numbers assigned to institutions will be posted on the bulletin board in the Placement Service Area.

Advice for Job Applicants

The APA Committee on Career Opportunities offers the following advice for job applicants: The schedule for those seeking jobs and those Departments offering positions is difficult for all concerned. From the point of view of Departments, any publication date for Jobs for Philosophers is a compromise between the competing demands imposed by the need to get funding for positions, so the later the better, and by the need to have time to process applications, so the sooner the better. From the point of view of job applicants, there are also competing demands: the sooner it is published, the more time to apply, but the later it is published, the more opportunities will be available. There is no easy solution to this problem, but you can ease your difficulties somewhat by being prepared when JFP is published. You should have your curriculum vitae ready to put in an envelope, a generic draft of a letter of application ready to be fine-tuned for particular job opportunities, and the rest of your file ready for mailing. This means talking to those who are to write letters of recommendation long before JFP is due to arrive, preparing material about your teaching capacities, and selecting a writing sample for those Departments that request it. Applications should be complete, as well as clearly organized. It is to your advantage to send in your application as soon as possible after an ad appears.

Information and Instructions for Interviewers

Requirements for Using the Placement Service

1. It is expected that all individual interviewers will register for the meeting either by using the registration form found in the back of this issue or by stopping at the registration booth in the International Foyer to register on- site prior to using the Placement Service.

2. All Departments (not individuals) planning to interview at the meeting should complete the Placement Service advance registration form found on our website, www.apaonline.org/departments/placement.asp or in the back of this issue.

Upon receipt of an advance registration form, additional information pertaining to the Placement Service will be sent to the attention of the contact person
listed on the form. In the event that we send Placement forms either via email or mail, please be sure to complete these and return them to our office at your earliest opportunity. Not doing so may cause your materials to arrive after the Staff has already left the office to travel to the meeting. In this case, we must have you fill out the forms again on site. If time does not allow sending them to us, please bring them with you and turn them in at the Placement Desk.

Checking in With the Service

Before you begin to interview candidates, please check in with the Placement Staff in the International Foyer. We will need to know that you have arrived on site for candidates inquiring about your institution. Additional information will be requested from you (or confirmed if your department pre-registered) at this time as well.

Some institutions accept interview requests at the meeting; some of these job notices may have appeared in Jobs for Philosophers while others are unpublished positions. A new, unpublished position will be assigned an AD# and posted on the bulletin board in the Placement Service area. If you are bringing such a job notice with you to the meeting, please provide the Placement Staff with four copies of the position you are advertising. Such a position announcement should be typed on one side only in a good size and easy to read font, and be as brief as possible. Only positions that have not appeared in Jobs for Philosophers will be posted. If you would like a position that has been posted at this meeting to appear on our website immediately following the meeting, or in the May 2004 issue of Jobs for Philosophers, you need to submit this ad as soon as possible, following the close of the meeting via our website, www.apa.udel.edu/apa/publications/jfp/advertise.asp . If you need assistance with this, contact Bridget Baker at bbaker@udel.edu.

Some institutions interview by prearrangement after placing an advertisement in Jobs for Philosophers and then contacting candidates prior to the meeting. When you arrange an interview with candidates, please inform them that they must be APA Members in order to use the Service and they must register for the meeting in order to use the Service.

If you plan to conduct job interviews anywhere other than at the interviewing tables/rooms we have provided, please let us know your plans because candidates often come to us to ask questions about the location/time (etc.) of their interviews, and we need to have complete, up-to-date information in order to help them (and you).

N.B.: If you are conducting interviews in a hotel room, please be aware of the following policy statement from the APA Board of Officers:

"At its 1994 Meeting, the Board of Officers of the APA adopted a policy of banning job interviews in sleeping rooms as quickly as adequate alternatives can be provided. The purpose of this action is to protect job candidates from situations that can be awkward or worse. In the meantime it offers the following temporary guidelines for departments that consider it necessary or preferable to hold job interviews in the hotel rooms of members of the interviewing department. Wherever possible, such interviews should occur
in the living room of a suite. When this is not possible, the interviewer should be mindful of the potential awkwardness of the situation, particularly for women candidates, and should do everything possible to ensure that a professional and respectful atmosphere prevails in the rooms. While it is not possible to specify all that this means, several points should be obvious: (1) rooms should be orderly (beds made, clothing picked up, etc.) during interviews; (2) interviewees should be seated in a chair (rather than on a bed).

In general, every attempt should be made to minimize the intrusion into the situation of the fact that the interview is being held in a bedroom. Interviewees who feel that these guidelines are not being adequately observed by interviewing departments are encouraged to convey this information to the Chair of the Committee on Career Opportunities who serves as an ombudsperson for the hiring process at APA meetings." (Originally published in Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, Vol. 68, No. 2, p. 56.)

Setting up Interview Schedules

Interviewing does not begin until Thursday afternoon, March 25, at 11:00 a.m. It is important that we adhere to the Placement Schedule of operating hours posted, as the Meeting Coordinator must schedule around us when using this room for other functions during the Meeting.

APA Interviewing Tables

The Placement Service provides numbered tables for interviewing purposes; you will receive your table number assignment when you check in. These table number assignments will also be posted on the Placement Service Bulletin Board. Should additional space for interviewing tables be necessary, this location will be posted as well.

Institution File Folder (Mailbox)

There will be a file folder bearing the name of your institution located at the Placement Service Area (International Foyer). Requests for interviews from candidates will be placed in this file folder.

Reviewing Interview Requests

When a candidate requests an interview with your institution, you should receive her/his curriculum vitae attached to a "Request for Interview" form. The bottom of this form is to be completed by you. If an interview is granted, space is provided on this form to list the time, date and location of the interview. If you are unable to interview a candidate, space for this response is also provided on the form. Any request you receive in an envelope contains confidential material and should be destroyed rather than returned to the candidate. As a matter of professional courtesy, all requests should receive a response. When a candidate receives a "Request" form back without a response, he or she is likely to assume that the material has not been reviewed and might possibly return this to you via our service or contact your institution by mail.

Each candidate is assigned a numbered file folder to facilitate prompt communication between interviewers and candidates. Materials that you wish to transmit to a registered candidate should be handed in to the Placement Service staff in the International Foyer, and will be delivered to the candidate by our staff.

APA Statement on Placement Practices

The APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession reminds you of its Statement on Placement Practices: The APA discourages the nomination by graduate departments of job seekers for positions in philosophy, and the submission of their dossiers in response to announcements of positions, without their knowledge or interest. This may seriously mislead those who are conducting searches, and may have unfortunate consequences both for them and for genuinely interested applicants. Graduate departments using a nomination procedure or submitting dossiers on behalf of job seekers should either attest explicitly that the candidate wishes to be considered for the positions in question, or (preferably) ensure that the job seekers themselves submit personal letters of application for these positions. Departments conducting searches are encouraged to recommend or require explicitly (in their position announcements) that each candidate, to be assessed of full consideration, should submit a personal letter of application for and interest in the announced position.

A Placement Ombudsperson will be available in the Placement Service area for persons encountering problems with the interviewing process.