So I'm applying for more jobs, and I find this job in Seattle that is for a humanities librarian, right? And I'm re-jiggering my resume, and then I see that the listing asks for salary requirements. OK, but my requirement is that I make at least $24,000 a year, the most I've made in the past. But that seems low. And do you integrate that requirement into the cover letter, or do you have it on another page? Even worse, it asks for a teaching statement; what the bloody, buggery bollocks does this mean? My teaching statement is: "Teachers are (generally) good". How long a statement are we talking about, and what should it include? Is this beyond my capacity? What are they looking for? The job is good enough that I'm willing to make the effort, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I googled it, and found a several-paragraph essay by someone seeking a job -- is that what I need? Do I need to write one out, and just have it around for me to include whenever a listing asks for it? The ALA website was not terribly useful. If any of the three librarians who actually read this blog have anything to share with me on this point, I'd be appreciative.
Alias last night was terrific, although I don't know if it was the best platform to start watching the show. My question is: how do the good guys know that APO is actually a legit government organization? Just because Angela Bassett says so? Who's to say she's not corrupt and rogue? It's not like Sloane is going to tell Jack if he's gone rogue again. And if he has, it would be easier to have these folks on his side than it would be to have them working against his purposes. (It'd be easier to kill them, I know, but Sloane's weird like that.) And the good guys can't verify its legitamacy, because, being a black ops, nobody else would know about them, and they have to keep it secret from friends like Weiss. Maybe I'm just being cynical.
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Seems low?
/bossy
$24k is definitely low! I'd check out some salary surveys (ALA has some, also SLA, esp. if you're a member) and cost of living indexes before you make that offer.
/bossy
I dunno though, I guess I see new librarian jobs for $28k here and there, and any job is better than no job after a while.
I put $35,000, mostly because a lot of the salary ranges indicated in ads are covered by that. I would NEVER put $24K -- I'm not that stoopid. After all, I'm going to have student loans I have to pay off eventually. But it's difficult to determine a salary that would cover cost of living and all that -- 35K would be fine here, but not so good in other parts of the country. I guess I need to do more homework.
Whew!
Wish I knew more about teaching statements...as in, wish I knew anything at all about them.
"Teaching, good!" sounds fine to my tin ear.
Put AT LEAST $35,000!
I've always hated those jobs that asked for people to put down their salary requirements.
I'm going to send it in w/o the teaching statement. It's not MY stamp.
The weird thing is, this is for a position at the University of Washington. My experience with the University of Michigan is that there really is no negotiation for salaries; you start with a base salary that is determined by the position you fill. I dunno...
Allo!
I think that living on 24k a year in Seattle is going to be really, really hard. Rent is expensive in that town, and if you want cheaper housing then you have to move out to the burbs. Then, of course, you have to commute. And gas on the west coast is really, really, expensive (right now, reg unleaded here is 2.22!)
As for a 'teaching statement', here's one on my MA advisors website. It might help you write yours. I guess they are as long as they need to be....
Hope this helps!
db ;-)
P.S. Seattle is VERY cool place.
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