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Almost every year sometime between now and December, you may receive one or more posts from members asking "how do we avoid reading all these job notices". The secret is in which ever finger you employ to hit the "delete" key. Let's review how job notices work on H-Net. 1.) Under H-Net by-laws, we are obliged to not post any job notification that comes directly to us. 2.) Instead, we post only items which have appeared in the H-Net Job Guide. Because of increasing costs associated with maintaining the Job Guide, H-NET now assesses a fee to advertisers (at present the fee is $85 US) to place an advertisement of the position on the Guide. At no time do _job seekers_ have to pay anything to access these job notices which are listed on the H-Net Job Guide Web page web page: URL < http://www.h-net.org/jobs/> and reprised in a weekly H-Net Job Guide index posting on H-Announcements. The job guide can be found at: <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/> with a link to the web-based form on which new positions may be enrolled. 3.) I would urge all network members to be alert to any known related vacancies in your institutions, and to urge the relevant parties to place an H-Net Job Guide listing. Remember, the notice does not only appear on the individual network, but on many of the 180 H-Net listsreaching many of the 180,000 H-Net subscribers. By encouraging your colleagues to post jobs on the H-Net Job Guide, you are opening the news to a very wide and diverse pool of potential candidates--and, you will be assisting in the continued fiscal stability of the entire H-NET enterprise, of which each network has been a major beneficiary. So, for those of you comfortably secure in your present position, please do not become impatient with this seasonal tide of job notices--it is one of the markers, admittedly one more material than intellectual, of the continued health and vitality of our academic enterprise. And remember, individuals need not be members to access the Job Guide notices--the notices are available to all at: <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/> and reprised in a weekly H-Net Job Guide And to the job candidates, H-Asia editor and H-Net President-elect Frank Conlon offers a piece of advice derived form the Hindu scriptures--the Bhagavad Gita to be precise: "Concentrate upon the work and not upon the fruits thereof." Which may include the meaning as follows: Pursue your job quest disinterestedly--that is, really work hard on polishing your cv, your summation of thesis, your teaching plans, your interests and strengths, but always go to an interview or put in an application with the idea that there is probably a better job somewhere else. If you can convince yourself of that, then you can relax --not worry about the fruits, the results--and do your best job. Believe me, it works. (And that advice won't even cost you $85!) Best, Matthew Matthew Gilmore vp-net@mail.h-net.msu.edu
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