{"id":1708,"date":"2007-09-06T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/06\/the-job-hunt\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T16:01:37","slug":"the-job-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/09\/06\/the-job-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Job Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m back in College Station, it’s time to start getting applications ready for the great job search. I don’t know how it is in other fields, but in math\/physics, this generally involves three to four letters of recommendation, a CV, a research statement, sometimes a teaching statement and maybe an annotated bibliography. In high energy physics, we have the Theoretical Particle Physics Job Rumor Mill<\/a> run by the now nonymous John Terning. In addition to listing offers and educated guesses at short lists, it also serves as a nice clearinghouse of positions. SPIRES<\/a>, the APS<\/a>, Physics Today<\/a> and I’m sure many others offer job listings, too.<\/p>\n

This is one situation where the math world definitely has the physics world beat, however. The AMS<\/a> runs a site called MathJobs<\/a> which is completely brilliant. There’s a searchable database of jobs which I’ve configured to send me newly listed relevant offers daily. You can upload all the relevant documentation, and it will automatically send an e-mail to your recommenders so that they can upload their letters. The application then becomes a simple matter of ensuring that the relevant files are available and clicking away. It’s easy, efficient, and it saves countless manila envelopes.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if any other academic fields do this right now, but I bet they all will in a few years. I hear rumors high energy physics postdocs may implement such a system in the nearish future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that I’m back in College Station, it’s time to start getting applications ready for the great job search. I don’t know how it is in other fields, but in math\/physics, this generally involves three to four letters of recommendation, a CV, a research statement, sometimes a teaching statement and maybe an annotated bibliography. In… Continue reading The Job Hunt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,8,64,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron","category-academia","category-guest_bloggers","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}