{"id":865,"date":"2006-11-30T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/30\/more-job-searching-in-academia\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T09:28:15","slug":"more-job-searching-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/30\/more-job-searching-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"More Job Searching in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Natelson posted the second installment in his inside view of the hiring process<\/a> for academic physics positions, this one describing the campus visit\/ interview process. Again, the description is mostly accurate for a much larger department than ours, at a research insitution, but the basic idea is the same.<\/p>\n

In our department, candidates making campus visits meet individually with each of the faculty for about half an hour, and also get tours of the campus and the department labs. Throw in a meeting with the Dean, and a colloquium talk, plus a meeting with students and dinner with a couple of faculty and, well, my interview was one of the most exhausting things I’ve ever done. You don’t realize how much work it is to be “on” for that length of time until you’ve had to do it.<\/p>\n

It’s a process I fervently hope never to go through again from the candidate side. It’s not a great deal of fun from the hiring side, either, but I don’t have much chance of dodging that– the official start date for reading applications in our open tenure track search is tomorrow, and we’re nearing 200 applications for the position. Shoot me now.<\/p>\n

Obviously, there isn’t a chance in hell that I’ll discuss any of the details of the search here. I may post some general comments later on, in the form of advice to future job seekers, but not until much later in the process, on the extremely small chance that anything I said here would be construed as giving anyone an advantage in the search.<\/p>\n

If I start to seem a little punchy, though, that’s a big part of the reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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