One issue being discussed at the philosophy job market wiki is how late in the day will schools still be scheduling interviews. (May I urge philosophers from interviewing departments to note the status of their department's interview decisions on that site as well?) It is now Friday evening, and my guess would be almost all schools have in fact contacted interviewees by now, though there may well be a handful that will try to reach candidates at the APA to schedule interviews--either because someone cancelled on them, or because they were especially tardy in making their interview decisions. My further guess is that yesterday (Thursday) or perhaps earlier today would have been the latest point at which the majority of departments would have contacted candidates. I have the anecdotal impression that the top departments some times wait the longest, but my anecdotes may be misleading on this score. (I have a dim recollection--this is 1992-93--of being contacted by UCLA for an interview in the evening just 3 or 4 days before Xmas. Needless to say, it was a nice phone call to get! And I've heard similar stories off-and-on over the years from friends from grad school and students here.)
I've opened comments for others to weigh in; non-anonymous comments will be preferred.
Best of luck to all those interviewing next week! As I have said to a number of our students, while this is undoubtedly a stressful time for job seekers, it also has one pleasant aspect for those being interviewed, namely, that other philosophers are taking your work seriously and want to talk to you about it. In between the "smokers" and the stress, try to enjoy the philosophical discussion when you can!
UPDATE: I've decided to allow more than the usual number of anonymous comments, given the understandable reasons folks would prefer not to post under their own names. As with all threads on which I have comments, the comments may take awhile to appear and comments are approved based on relevance and content. (All comments [five so far] have been approved on this thread, but that is higher than the norm.)
