Tips when looking for PhD positions or other jobs in linguistics
A few quick tips to people looking for jobs in linguistics, especially as students. I've recently been trying to help out some friends of mine who are looking for positions, and thought I'd perhaps share some quick tips that have helped me. Not that I'm an expert or anything, I'm just a tiny little PhD student who overthinks things a lot, but all the same. These might seem quite obvious, but I think they might actually be helpful still. Lemme know if you found them useful. 1) Talk to the professors, colleagues and bosses you like and let them know you're looking and would appreciate advice and support. Seriously, they might not have realised this and could be very helpful. Pre-warn them that you might need them to write recommendations letters. 2) Subscribe to mailing lists, and filter them(!!) . Go to Linguist List and set yourself up to a few lists that look interesting. The large one LINGUIST has a tag for jobs, it's "Jobs", and I also high...