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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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You will be judged; your large team research grant will be reviewed
Once I was involved in deciding who would get an important mentoring prize. One of the candidates was from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He had many students supporting his nomination. They pointed out how empathetic he … Continue reading
Posted in Grants, Group leadership
Tagged Attention, evaluation, evolutionary biology, Finnland, Finns, graduate students, international programs, Michigan State University, postdocs, Research, Rice University, Richard Dawkins, science, Shepherd School of Music, Social Sciences, United States
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