Placement Service
The Placement Service provides placement assistance to APA-AIA Candidates and Institutions through the following services:
- Positions for Classicists and Archaeologists, a monthly publication announcing available and possible positions, generally for the following academic year. Positions is mailed out on or about the 15th of every month. Within a week of that time, the job listings are posted on the websites of the APA and AIA. The Placement Service also uses e- mail to transmit Positions. Candidates who sign up for e-mail service will receive Positions twice each month. When a Candidate or Institution joins the Service, any missed back issues of Positions will be forwarded accordingly. In addition, registered candidates have access to a web site where they can review recently submitted job advertisements as soon as they are reviewed for completeness.
- Interviewing Facilities at the Annual Meeting. The Placement Service offers facilities for interviews and other communications during the APA/AIA Joint Annual Meeting only to Candidates and those Institutions registered for Comprehensive Service. The Placement Service also serves as a scheduling center through which messages are transmitted and interviews arranged between institutional representatives and applicants at times convenient to both. The Placement Office provides rooms for interviewing candidates; however, institutions are encouraged to rent their own private suites for this purpose, as the Placement Service’s space is limited.
Both candidates and institutions should register for the Service online at placement.apaclassics.org. Before registering, all users of the Service should read its Guidelines. In addition, the Joint APA/AIA Placement Committee has published a Checklist of Advice for Job Candidates and a set of Reminders for Search Committees (Please note: some of the files are PDF and thus require Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application that can be downloaded if not already installed. Installation of the browser plug-in allows files to be read inside any browser.) Candidates may also wish to refer to Going on the Market … An Affable Guide, by Joy Connolly (NYU).
Information on Registration for the Placement Service
November 14, 2011
The new Placement Service web site is now available at placement.apaclassics.org. We appreciate the patience that both candidates and hiring institutions have shown as we develop this new service. The web site will permit both candidates and institutions to register and to submit scheduling information online and to see their schedules filled out as specific interview times are assigned. Registered candidates will also be able to see new position listings as soon as texts of those listings are received and reviewed. Please note that this new web site for registered candidates will only supplement – it will not replace – the traditional monthly listings of new positions that appear on the APA and AIA web sites. The traditional listings perform a number of valuable functions for the field, but we look forward to giving active job candidates the earliest possible access to new listings.
Candidates should be aware that we have a considerable backlog of positions already advertised that we need to enter into the new system. The new job listing web site will therefore probably not be complete and up-to-date until the third week in November.
We ask all candidates now to register using the online system. Please complete your registration and submit your payment by November 30. Note this extended deadline. Next week all of last year’s candidates as well as those new candidates who gave us their e-mail addresses in the last few months will receive the early edition of the November issue of Positions for Classicists and Archaeologists. However, we will send the November 15 issue of Positions and all subsequent issues only to candidates who have registered in the new system. If you pay by credit card, you will have access to the Service immediately; if you pay by check, you will not have access to the Service until we receive your check. Candidates should also keep in mind that they must be members in good standing of either APA or AIA to register, and that membership will be verified before a candidate can have access to the Service.
Institutions registering for the first time this year should use the new online system rather than submitting printed forms. Institutions that have already submitted position listings for 2011-2012 accompanied by the PDF form posted on the APA and AIA web sites last Summer do not need to register again. Now that the site is active, we will enter your data into the system during the first week in November. Special Note for Institutions that have already purchased Comprehensive Service: Once that data is entered, your institutional representative will receive an e-mail with instructions for setting up a username and password. You will need this information to submit your search committee’s availability and to tell us which candidates you would like to interview.
Step-by-step procedures for registering for the Placement Service can be found at http://placement.apaclassics.org/page/help. This page also contains suggestions for using the web site after registration. If you encounter any difficulties with the registration process feel free to send an e-mail to me (blistein@sas.upenn.edu) or to Placement Director Renie Plonski (plonskii@sas.upenn.edu).
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