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Tag Archives: assistant professor
Five reasons to hire you for our open faculty position
Hiring is one of the most important things we do. A new hire is a colleague for years, possibly decades. The new professor will figure out things we don’t know, will even completely change the way we view a major … Continue reading
Posted in Interviewing, New assistant professor
Tagged assistant professor, creativity, faculty, hiring, research and teaching
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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
Posted in Jobs
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
Tips for job applicants: how the department decides whom to hire
Hiring a colleague for the coming decades is the most important thing we do. We want to get it right. We want someone who knows how to get research on great ideas done in the foggy jungle of daily tasks … Continue reading
Tips for job applicants: how I read your file on the first pass
It is not easy to read hundreds of job application files, so it is important to have a system. I do not know if other people use my system or not. Most probably they have their own system, but we … Continue reading
Tips for job applicants: your cover letter is too vague and long
What do you study? I simply want a few words first off that tell me what you do. You would not believe the number of letters that give me paragraphs on everything ecological, evolutionary, bioinformatic, transformative, and biodiverse and yet … Continue reading
Posted in Jobs
Tagged assistant professor, cover letter, cover letters, job application, unicorns, what is your big idea
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Tips for job applicants: don’t name possible collaborators here
It is not a good idea to name people you might collaborate with here. You do not know our situation. This open position might be part of a retention package for someone specific. Our web page is certainly out of … Continue reading
Why does it take so long to choose a short list for an assistant professor position?
We received your application and letters of reference close to our target of 15 October. We made all the files immediately available to the faculty on the committee. We have been spending hours and hours reading the files. But why … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged assistant professor, open position, Research, St. Louis, teaching
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