In this continuing series, David D. Perlmutter explores all the things that can go wrong for candidates during the faculty job hunt, including fake searches, bad fits, inappropriate questions, and scheduling challenges.
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Career ConfidentialAcademic Job Hunts From Hell: Rebooting Your Search
What to do next if you were shut out on the faculty market. -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Why You Weren’t Picked
Nuclear errors, incompetent committees, and other reasons you weren’t offered the job. -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: The Contract Minefield
A job offer is not the culmination of the hiring process; it’s the beginning of negotiations. -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Keep on Script
The job interview is not a spontaneous exchange, it’s a minefield. -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Timing Is Everything
How to juggle job interviews and campus visits and stay focused and sane. -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Inappropriate, Hostile, and Awkward Moments
How do you deal with off-putting exchanges in job interviews and meetings? -
Advice
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Detecting a Bad Fit
How do you recognize when a department with a job opening is not the place for you? -
Career Confidential
Academic Job Hunts From Hell: The Fake Search
How do you recognize when the favored candidate in a search has been predetermined?
