Post by Oprisko on Nov 13, 2012 12:01:31 GMT -5
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I think this board is over-shooting what it can accomplish best at this moment. Campus interviews and phone interviews are great, but you have to get to them for any info on them to be at all effective. May I, therefore, suggest that we use this thread as a no-BS engagement on how to get to the interview stage. What kind of cover letters work? What does a successful research statement and teaching philosophy look like?
More importantly, I think it will do us no good to submit anything that did not end in an interview. I want to focus only on documents of a quality that actually resulted in movement in the job market, otherwise we're going to sit here and pat ourselves on the back about how awesome we are regardless of how unemployed we remain. Let's face it - we are here to get hired and that is a stressful time in which answers are few.
Perhaps some of our Asst Profs can send us the documents that helped them land jobs at Purdue? Sure we don't get to add that we graduated from Princeton (which would help), but there has to be something we can learn from them.
More importantly, I think it will do us no good to submit anything that did not end in an interview. I want to focus only on documents of a quality that actually resulted in movement in the job market, otherwise we're going to sit here and pat ourselves on the back about how awesome we are regardless of how unemployed we remain. Let's face it - we are here to get hired and that is a stressful time in which answers are few.
Perhaps some of our Asst Profs can send us the documents that helped them land jobs at Purdue? Sure we don't get to add that we graduated from Princeton (which would help), but there has to be something we can learn from them.
