The academic job market is a monolith that looms over the lives of most graduate students, but part of the reason it’s so imposing is because it seems so inscrutable and impenetrable. Higher education scholar and journalist Leonard Cassuto, author of The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It, will explain the role of the market in academic culture of our time, and what it takes for graduate students to search for jobs with informed confidence.