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Questions on the process of advertising, selecting, interviewing, and possibly hiring individuals for academic positions.

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I went to college for engineering and am now a science PhD student. My first year wasn’t easy due to this switch. Further, the student who was supposed to be training me would always yell at me, throw ...
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I need some advice regarding joining as a faculty in an university. I am currently a guest faculty at a university for the subject mathematics. I got selected for another university where I would like ...
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I'm on a faculty search committee in a large department at a large university. We can typically recruit 4-6 new faculty per year. We would like to recruit the "best" faculty available each ...
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I'm searching for a postdoc and it seems that Lishui University recruits for its departments in Tokyo, Seoul, New York, Sidney etc. Typical job ad looks like this. Not even biggest universities I know ...
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Several years ago I participated in a conference as a speaker, and my speech was so good it got a third place award for the best speaker. For many years it was stated on the organizer's website, and I'...
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I did a 3-year industrial PhD joint programme between a university and a company. Working for the company, I vastly improved their technology, but got no patents in my name. I wrote some papers, but ...
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I was born and educated in the UK but have spent the entirety of my career working in the US in government and higher education. I'm not, and never have been, a faculty member but rather part of the '...
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I am heading to the AMS/MAA Joint Meetings in Boston soon. My mathematics department in Xiamen University (Malaysia) has a couple of open permanent positions this cycle, and I would like to meet job ...
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I am finishing my undergraduate studies soon (CompSci) and am currently writing a paper. I am still deciding whether to submit it to a smaller conference or to a workshop at a big conference. (I don't ...
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I'd like to know the recruitment process for the appointments of lecturer, assistant and associate professors in Spain. Just to give you an idea, I'm writing down the equivament details in the ...
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I finished my PhD some time ago, and my relationship with my advisor was really poor. For instance he refused to write me any recommendation letter for my postdoc because he considered that working ...
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There are six types of higher educational institutions in the US according to this source Doctoral Universities (R1, R2, D/PU) Master's Colleges and Universities (M1, M2, M3) Baccalaureate Colleges (...
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I have been contacted by the search committee of a Swedish institute to whose (STEM-based) tenure-track position I had applied almost 8 months ago. They informed me that I will have an interview over ...
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In cases where new professors at universities or research institutes are given laboratory space and budgets for new equipment, graduate students and postdocs, but assistance in recruiting those ...
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I think it is clearly true that an editor of a journal can be a reference for the author of the paper he is managing since he could know the quality of the paper very well. So this question may seem ...
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