Tenure-track job applications: 49
(in how many states: 18)
(in how many countries: 4)
Types of biologist I have claimed to be: Evolutionary Biologist, Animal Behaviorist, Ecologist, Animal Ecologist, Vertebrate Biologist, Organismal Biologist, Geneticist, Environmental Scientist, Integrative Biologist, Molecular Ecologist, Functional Genomicist, Population Geneticist, Conservation Biologist, Zoologist, Field Biologist
Search committees that never bothered to acknowledge my application or send a rejection letter: only 8 (not bad)
Phone interviews: 5
Campus interviews: 4
Positions interviewed for: Evolutionary Biologist, Ecologist, Molecular Ecologist, Animal Biologist
Search committees who told me I didn't get the job in a timely, polite fashion (at places I had interviewed): 1
Search committees who apparently weren't going to tell me the job was filled already, but responded rather impolitely to my email inquiries (at places I had interviewed): 2
Job offers: 1
Job offers accepted: 0
Chocolate Chip Pancakes
3 days ago
6 comments:
Wait! Wut? Your job search succeeded but you didn't take the fucking job????
No. I decided I would be better off here in my new position of Research Scientist than as an Assistant Professor at that particular institution.
Good for you for thinking about fit and not just taking the position!
Wow. Quite the summary. The least anyone can say is you are persistent and versatile. :)
PP some jobs are not worth it. In my 2nd year as a post-doc I applied for some positions and got an offer. School was good the offer was so low, I couldn't take the job especially since the area's economy was going into the tank and drastically cutting the types of jobs my wife is qualified for. The school had set salaries and set moving expenses. The reward was just not worth the risk. If my wife got a job we would have actually taken a net pay cut even after adjusting for differences in cost of living. Turned down a job offer without one in hand for similar reasons this year. Got another offer a couple weeks later luckily that I did accept.
Damn! That is quite the list!
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