Straightforward question. If you receive a job offer as TT, what type of services do spouses/significant others not in academia generally receive in order to find employment?
Help for spouse/significant other to find employment?
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Every university is different but you should expect some of the following:
1. Professors in the department are expected to drop everything they are doing an organize a job search committee for your spouse.
2. The job search committee will then educate itself on your spouse's field and find suitable positions to present to your spouse.
3. The entire institutional power of the university may be mobilized in which deans from other schools and professors from other departments show allegiance and provide any personal contacts that may be able to provide a suitable position to your spouse.
4. If these steps are not successful, the university president may decide to create an admin position for your non-academic spouse.
5. Keep in mind if you are at a public school the legislature or governor may be willing to step in on your behalf. They will have to set up a search committee and move from there. If you are at a religious you may also receive institutional support. ( I haven't heard of the pope stepping in but there have been several cases of an archbishop working to find an ap non academic spouse a job), Most importantly though if you are at a private school, influential alumni will be summoned to help.
Everyone will be concerned about the future employment of your non academic spouse. Don't worry and definitely don't let your spouse bother with trying to find a job on their own. You are a newly hired AP and the university is a great resource to help you achieve anything.
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I've been at two (public) schools and both had university offices to help with this kind of thing. I'm not sure exactly what the offices offer since I never had to use them, I presume that at a minimum they provide counseling/advice about the lay of the local land and in the best case they have connections with potential employers in and out of the university. (I.E. even if your spouse is not an academic there are various places in the university where he/she might be employed)
But this is nowhere near as sensitive as the spousal hire question so you should just ask.
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Errol:
I've been at two (public) schools and both had university offices to help with this kind of thing. I'm not sure exactly what the offices offer since I never had to use them, I presume that at a minimum they provide counseling/advice about the lay of the local land and in the best case they have connections with potential employers in and out of the university. (I.E. even if your spouse is not an academic there are various places in the university where he/she might be employed)
But this is nowhere near as sensitive as the spousal hire question so you should just ask.This is the right answer. When I got my current job I told them what my wife did and asked if they knew of anything. Some of the people in the department were helpful about good places for her to apply, and let me know of a couple internal job offers. They didn't help place her, but they did give me some help with the process so that was nice.
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Very little, even at a top-R1, for a newly hired AP. If you have lots of leverage, you may be able to get a temporary admin position. Usually the university has an office to "help" but in my experience they're not useful. Generally the impression among academics seems to be that private sector jobs are easy to come by and non-academic trailing spouses enjoy complete job mobility.
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When I was first hired as an assistant professor (private university in a major city), I did contact from our university's dual-career office, and they offered to help my spouse find a job. However, their "help" pretty much amounted to things like:
- Helping my spouse prepare a resume, cover letter, etc. (as if my spouse didn't know how to do those things...)
- Pointing us to publicly available websites with job listings, both within and outside of the university (as if we didn't know how to find those things...)Overall, pretty pointless and condescending. My sense is that, at least at my university, the dual-career program exists solely so that administrators can claim we have a dual-career program when recruiting new faculty.
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Is your wife is plenty fit she can likely make bank as an escort or working a strîpper pole
And if those don’t work out, she can be First Lady.
^^Agreed. Dual career offices at the vast majority of universities are entirely for show and offer close to zero value to the actual spouses of faculty members. My partner's experience was exactly as ^^ described.
Your wife was an escort? Go on…