Bret Devereaux

This may be more history than classics - but there's a fair bit of data that departments like to hire fresh PhDs rather than folks out in the field for a while. So if you want a publication to help you land a job, it's got to be done before the first round of the job market.

I think that perception is leading a lot of graduate students to feel the pressure to have that first article out or in review for that first, most promising run at the job market. As a psychological hedge against the randomness of it, if nothing else.

Yeah, every search is its own unique and strange animal. That said, my impression generally is that graduates of programs where there is more teaching tend to fair somewhat worse than graduates of programs where there is more research focus.