{"id":798,"date":"2006-11-08T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/08\/get-a-job\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T10:50:23","slug":"get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/08\/get-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a Job!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Female Science Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/science-professor.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/get-job.html\">reviews an article from <<cite>Physics Today<\/cite><\/a> on getting a liberal arts college job. Unfortunately, the article itself seems to be subscriber-only. I have a subscription, but I haven&#8217;t read the article yet, and can&#8217;t tell you what it says, or whether the advice is good. The stuff that FSP says is all very sensible, though.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, <a href=\"http:\/\/nanoscale.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/primer-on-faculty-searches.html\">Doug Natelson describes the search process<\/a> from the faculty side. A few of the things he mentions are specific to large departments&#8211; smaller schools don&#8217;t generally have enough faculty to form sub-committees of the search committee&#8211; but the basic picture is similar to what we do here.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like an inside look at the process, here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/04\/why_are_you_asking_me.php\">old post describing my job search<\/a>. It&#8217;s a &#8220;Classic Edition&#8221; post from before I started calling them that.<\/p>\n<p>On a not-unrelated note, yesterday we passed 100 applications for the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/fyi_1.php\">open tenure-track job in our department<\/a>. We also have recommendation letters for another 30-odd people whose main applications haven&#8217;t arrived yet. The deadline is December 1, and it&#8217;s even money whether we&#8217;ll break 200 by the time we start reading folders.<\/p>\n<p>December is going to <strong>suck<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Female Science Professor reviews an article from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}