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Post by flyin on Mar 11, 2013 23:27:03 GMT -5
I was flown in to a job that was clearly going to someone else (inside hire). They flew me in for 1 day (fly in the night before). They canceled dinner on me last minute and said there were some food options around the hotel and that I should bring the receipt.
SC picked me up an hour late. We hung out in his office for over an hour...mostly in awkward silence. I asked about my itinerary and he said "oh we 're not going to follow that very closely". I had half of the 1-on-1's canceled and 4 faculty (out 13) came to my job talk. They looked at their watches and cell phones. One was on their iPad playing "Angry Birds" (I could see it from where I was).
I ate lunch alone. More canceled afternoon 1-on-1's and at one point I sat in the lobby for 2 hours - alone. I met the Dean and was sent to the airport afterwards. I never heard from them again.
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Post by driving on Mar 12, 2013 6:50:27 GMT -5
Hit and run on a parked car while a faculty member was driving me around.
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Post by whoops on Mar 12, 2013 10:32:28 GMT -5
I accidentally scheduled two interviews (both at places I was seriously considering) for the same days. Whoops. I realized the mistake a week before. Had I not realized it, I would have been stuck at the airport, thinking I had a flight to University A when really it was scheduled for the following week.
Thankfully, after some hyperventilating on my part, everyone was very gracious about it and worked it out.
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Post by really on Mar 12, 2013 10:34:43 GMT -5
At a big group dinner, a senior (female!) faculty asked me:
"Do you have a partner?"
And later, after I dodged that one:
"What does your partner do?"
Lesson: Folks were surprisingly good about this, but someone may very well ask. Everyone else at the table was too shocked to stop it in time, so I had to have an answer. Be prepared to know how you want to answer this question!
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Post by justsoyouknow on Mar 12, 2013 11:22:53 GMT -5
I know they aren't supposed to, but a lot of departments ask the partner question of both men and women. Be prepared for it because you're very likely to get it.
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Post by Meee on Mar 12, 2013 12:35:15 GMT -5
I got asked the partner question doing every single campus visit. Im a woman and I purposely removed my ring. I think it's very common to get asked these sorts of questions. Security check: respect me
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Post by keep the ring on on Mar 12, 2013 13:24:23 GMT -5
I hear you about people asking taboo questions has happened to me several times- sometimes by grad students who don't know any better and sometimes by faculty that do.
Don't remove your ring though or lie and say you don't have a partner when you do. It is tacky and dishonest.
Just as an aside I don't think many places will hold the whole partner thing against you. However to any grad students about to go on the market you probably shouldn't have pictures of you and your partner on your website (especially if you are looking for a spousal hire). A friend of mine did this a few years back, and it wound up leading to an awkward conversation during dinner.
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Post by illegalquestions on Mar 12, 2013 17:43:09 GMT -5
At one of my job interviews, I was asked a lot of illegal questions: Are you married? Are you gay? What religion are you? Everything in the book.
I was ultimately offered the job and took it (there were a lot of things to like about it).
What's great is that I've been able to help institute a departmental culture where such questions are off-limits. So, I've been able to fix the problem that I encountered when I interviewed, which is rewarding. In our case, it was ignorance: people just didn't know that those questions were illegal. Since then, we've conducted several searches and it has not been an issue.
So, keep in mind that, once you are hired, you have a lot of power to alter the things you find problematic (or in this case, practices that are illegal).
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Post by bug on Mar 12, 2013 18:43:30 GMT -5
The questions themselves are not illegal, they simply can be used as evidence of illegal discrimination taking place, so they are not advisable.
Sexual orientation is also not a protected category federally and in most states.
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Post by canuck on Mar 12, 2013 21:34:37 GMT -5
Previous comment assumes the poster was interviewing in the U.S.
Asking those questions is illegal in Canada, FYI. (including questions about sexual orientation)
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Post by justrollwithit on Mar 21, 2013 13:10:22 GMT -5
arrived for a three day interview without my luggage.
Since the airline consistently told me that my luggage would be delivered to my hotel room that afternoon, that evening, or early the next morning, I never accepted faculty offers to take me shopping.
The best part, the evening before my job talk and realized my luggage would not be arriving that evening, I decided to get a cab to a local store. Cabs were not running because of severe winter storm. When I ran to use the laundry at the hotel, the power went out. Thankfully the power came back on in the middle of the night and I was able to show up for the big day at least clean if not in a suit.
As an aside, I never check luggage, circumstances demanded I check my luggage for is trip - never again.
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Post by partner talk on Mar 22, 2013 0:43:28 GMT -5
I am single and heterosexual and write on "sexual prejudice" against sexual minorities. The first two minutes into a discussion with the search comiittee they asked "what is your relations?" with each of my "same-sex" coauthors. I discussed the division of labor in the research process (not sure about the intent of the committee member). Then after my job talk, an alumni said I was brave to study homophobia and "nobody does that sort of research around here." I got to share a "spoiled identity" in some sort of a way. The school was a R1 in the Deep South.
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reconsidering snowy places
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Post by reconsidering snowy places on Mar 25, 2013 22:56:42 GMT -5
Flew in late the night before, had dinner alone in the hotel, went to breakfast with a few of the department people and got notified that because of an incoming storm my interview would be cut way short so I could fly out the same afternoon instead of the next day. I had to give my job talk over lunch without notes or a powerpoint (or even the chance to look at them), and left early afternoon, so I missed out on about half the 1-on-1s and dinner. Everyone was very nice, but I didn't get the job.
While I understand they were doing their best with weather conditions they couldn't control, I feel kind of cheated since I'm pretty sure that all the other candidates got the full interview time.
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they should have known
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Post by they should have known on Apr 26, 2013 7:55:14 GMT -5
Flew in late the night before, had dinner alone in the hotel, went to breakfast with a few of the department people and got notified that because of an incoming storm my interview would be cut way short so I could fly out the same afternoon instead of the next day. I had to give my job talk over lunch without notes or a powerpoint (or even the chance to look at them), and left early afternoon, so I missed out on about half the 1-on-1s and dinner. Everyone was very nice, but I didn't get the job. While I understand they were doing their best with weather conditions they couldn't control, I feel kind of cheated since I'm pretty sure that all the other candidates got the full interview time. That's just ridiculous. You were already in town, so they couldn't just tell you to go home and come back without taking on a huge expense, but snow storms tend not to just pop up out of nowhere, so they had the ability to figure out what was coming prior to your arrival. The idea to push through may have been time- or money-related, but it makes the search a joke if the committee doesn't get to evaluate all of the candidates who the department has already deemed hireable (in most cases). Obviously, they determined that other candidates also were good bets and went with the one whom they had the most certainty in, but if someone is given a bogus interview due to circumstances beyond his or her control, then the department can't be sure that it even made the best choice.
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Post by ha ha on Apr 26, 2013 17:18:39 GMT -5
Reply#15 and #27, I'd love to know what school. I recently had a similar experience to yours PLUS all the students told me how horrible the place was. It was such an embarrassing experience, on the school's part.
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