Timeline for How to politely decline a postdoc after the interview, when another postdoc is maybe still in game (same institution)
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| Jun 14, 2018 at 9:53 | vote | accept | user3624251 | ||
| May 14, 2018 at 16:01 | answer | added | Bryan Krause♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 14, 2018 at 13:36 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/996021520781791232 | ||
| May 14, 2018 at 12:09 | comment | added | pipe | So far you have received two answers, but no way to accept either one. People, remember to write your answers in the correct place: The box marked with "Your Answer". If you don't feel that an answer is good enough, you don't have to write it. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 10:44 | comment | added | xLeitix | If you don't get the second position, will you then want the first one? If that is the case you should not decline at all. If you don't want the first position independently of what happens to other position then the other position has no bearings on this and you should just decline like you decline any other post: briefly, politely, and without going into details. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 10:28 | comment | added | Mithun | As both are in same institution, generally, they often meet each other in various occasions. It will be an awkward situation in future if you don’t make the current stage very clear to both research groups. Don’t make any bad excuses for the denial. If you don’t like the first job, say it clearly. When you have the interview with next research team, there might be someone from the first research group. If you make any wrong decision now, you may lose both opportunities. | |
| May 14, 2018 at 10:03 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 14, 2018 at 10:02 | history | edited | user3624251 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 14, 2018 at 9:47 | comment | added | skymningen | Do you know how quickly there will be a decision about the more interesting position? | |
| May 14, 2018 at 9:43 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | Am I understanding the title correctly that both postdoc positions are at the same institution. If yes, please edit your question to clarify and also please specify about what size of institution we are talking (university, department, institute)? | |
| May 14, 2018 at 9:39 | history | asked | user3624251 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |