Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 From Fit to Belonging New Dialogues on the Student Affairs Job Search -- 2 Innocent Until Proven Guilty A Critical Interrogation of the Legal Aspects of Job Fit in Higher Education -- 3 Employer Definitions of and Reflections on Fit in Hiring Processes -- 4 Holograms, Misfits, and Authentic Selves Fit as Narrative Agency Through Inequality Regimes -- 5 No, I Can't Meet You for an 8 Coffee How Class Shows Up in Workspaces -- 6 Finding Fit as an "Outsider Within" A Critical Exploration of Black Women Navigating the Workplace in Higher Education -- 7 Code Word FIT Exploring the Systemic Exclusion of Professionals of Color in Predominantly White Institutions -- 8 Negotiating Fit While "Misfit" Three Ways Trans Professionals Navigate Student Affairs -- 9 "You'll Fit Right In" Fit as a Euphemism for Whiteness in Higher Education Hiring Practices -- 10 (Re)Viewing and (Re)Moving the Mystique Surrounding "Fit" in Student Affairs A Challenge to Our Field -- Editors and Contributors -- Index.

This book opens a conversation about the use of "job fit" as a tool for exclusion that needs to be critically investigated from multiple standpoints. This book aims to help job seekers looking to evaluate fit in their current and possible future positions, as well as hiring managers who face challenges in creating equitable hiring processes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.