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Can a rubric help with faculty hiring?
Rubrics seem to be all the rage these days, whether they are appropriate or not. A rubric is simply a system for assigning points to different aspects of an assignment. They can be very useful for communicating to a student … Continue reading
Explain the oddities on your resumé or we’ll make something up
You have a four year gap in your timeline. Please explain it or we might think you were in prison instead of simply taking time out for family. Your job is in Houston but you are living in Boston. Don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged breaks, complete resume, explain the gaps, leaves of absence, oddities
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How to make your application stand out among hundreds
Who are you? What have you done? How do you compare to our metrics? Can you make it easier for us to find this out? I am getting very cranky because I am spending my weekend reading file after file … Continue reading
Hurry! We have an opening at Wash U for an ecologist in any specialty!
Please share this exciting position for a tenure track ecologist of any flavor! We have a great group and are in a world clss city! Join us! Below is the advertisement. Washington University in St. Louis Department of Biology … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, open positions, Research, teaching, tenure track jobs
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Apply for our job in evolutionary genomics!
I hope by now you have your research and teaching statements ready for the hiring season. I hope you are not trying to think about where you might fit, but are leaving that for when you have offers. Just send … Continue reading
Tips for job applicants: why we don’t agree on the top candidates
Here are the steps we take in choosing whom to interview, in case you are just tuning in. First, each person on the search committee read about a third of the applicants. Two people read each applicant. Then each reader … Continue reading
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Tagged application, Application for employment, assistant professor, Attention, collegiality, Education, evolution, hiring, Reading, Search, Search Committee
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Update on phone interviews: a list of actual questions!
Here’s a list of actual phone interview questions, kindly provided by a colleague who just shone on a phone interview. He said it helped a lot to practice and to have some notes written out, though he did not use … Continue reading
Tips for job applicants: what we want to hear on the phone interview
Against all odds, you have an interview! Don’t order the spinach salad! Oh, wait, it’s a phone interview? Hmm, how does that work? I remember a giggly trans-ocean interview from Rice in which the faculty all crammed into my office … Continue reading
Tips for job applicants: we ranked into categories, not into a line
Even the most collegial people can get stubborn if they feel they are not being respected sufficiently, or if they feel they are being ignored. This is a dynamic that serves no useful purpose on a search committee, so I … Continue reading
