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UNLV?
May 3, 2013 12:10:41 GMT -5
Post by Sucks dude on May 3, 2013 12:10:41 GMT -5
only interviewing ethnographers?? ugh, then it's even more disappointing that i didn't land a campus interview.. You and *hundreds* of others, probably. Chin up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiRJaa1wbzg
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UNLV?
May 3, 2013 12:20:47 GMT -5
Post by dramatic on May 3, 2013 12:20:47 GMT -5
Uhhh sure ok... security check: over the top Really? Dude, check the creds ... You have a job already? Yeah, I have a good R1 job from this year's market. Not from one of the schools you mentioned, nor did I have to submit a stool sample, just like most of the people getting good R1 jobs this year.
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UNLV?
May 3, 2013 12:44:49 GMT -5
Post by Sucks dude on May 3, 2013 12:44:49 GMT -5
Really? Dude, check the creds ... You have a job already? Yeah, I have a good R1 job from this year's market. Not from one of the schools you mentioned, nor did I have to submit a stool sample, just like most of the people getting good R1 jobs this year. I was trying to make a reject feel better with a little good humour, but I'm sure s/he feels better now knowing that *you* have an R1 position and defend good objective rhetoric. Thanks for sharing. Goodbye.
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UNLV?
May 4, 2013 11:59:02 GMT -5
Post by Too simplistic on May 4, 2013 11:59:02 GMT -5
so bummed, this was pretty much a dream job and i thought the fit was tremendous. i know they're losing a demographer so perhaps they're looking for quantitative folks. :'( I know, but I mean this in all intended friendliness: you have to stop thinking any job is the right job. The rejections become absolutely soul crushing, and in this market we need to stay as optimistic as possible. If you think the job is perfect for you, 50-300 other candidates think it is perfect for them. Let the committees decide which job is perfect for you. ... unless you went to Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford, or Cambridge ... in that case you could send the committee a stool sample with an ivy league stamp on it and they would hang it on your office door when you're hired. It is too simplistic to think that anyone who went to a top school will automatically be considered a top candidate for any position; rather, that status just makes it less likely that a top candidate will be overlooked. This having been said, you are, indeed, on point in noting that every job is a perfect fit for very many other qualified applicants. I am sure that others could have done my job, but I'm the one who emerged from the pool because my letter-writers were known, so there was less guess work involved in predicting who I would be as a faculty member. There are other jobs for which I thought I was a perfect fit, but I didn't even get past the first round. There is so much luck involved in this process that it is important to keep the perspective that even a great fit may pass you by. In addition, departments are putting their best feet forward at the same time that candidates are, so don't assume you can understand what a great fit is just by looking at the ad and talking to a few people who are in the department. Finally, to the dude who is getting ready to start at an R1 and is apparently rubbing people the wrong way, I am a faculty member at an R1 department, and while I can say that I enjoy my job, speaking of every R1 as though it is the Holy Grail is also too simplistic. Getting the job is only Step 1.
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UNLV?
May 15, 2013 16:01:01 GMT -5
Post by unlv on May 15, 2013 16:01:01 GMT -5
Any updates?
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