By: Honey

A quickie update – I e-mailed the search committee for the assistant professor position, and the chair of the committee said that things are still in flux and they will contact me when they know more. Jake’s and my read of this is that I’m still in the running, but not one of the top two candidates. It’s totally usual for committees to have a short list of say 5 candidates that they’d definitely be interested in hiring, but only invite the top 2 to campus interviews. Then if it doesn’t work out with those folks, they keep moving down the list. This is very nerve-wracking when you are doing a big job search and applying for lots of stuff at once, because then you could end up with a timeline where you have to answer back to your 3rd or 4th choice’s job offer before your 1st and 2nd choices know what’s up with your status. But, since I only applied for the one job, it doesn’t make much difference to me. I’m just stoked because anything that’s not an outright rejection means they liked me!
.-= Honey´s last blog …Honey Takes Stock in 2010 =-.