Great post discussing the publishing dilemma for graduate students

Leiter's response to the Pea Soup discussion of a proposal to ignore job candidates' "pedigree".

Douglas Portmore asks: What effect does pedigree have on hiring decisions? He proposes a way to eliminate that, and his hypothesis is that it does have an impact. He then suggests this is a bad thing. There's no discussion yet, but I think this could get interesting.

A new ranking of professions says that being a philosopher is the 12th best job you can have. Scroll down and check the table.

A lot of buzz in the philosophy blogosphere regarding the APA - Here is a recent installment. The discussion is worth the read.

Another post useful for those on the market (for different reasons than the cancellation post).

Comments section is just starting but already interesting. Even more interesting is the question of whether being a carnivore might hurt you on the market (this comes up in the comments).

TAR is pointing to a discussion on the philosophy job market blog about making the JfP more user friendly.

[HT: Brian Leiter]

Here are 10 bits of advice for search committees written from the perspective of a job applicant with a sort of "Philosophy Job Market Blog" tone. [HT: Brian Leiter]