Timeline for Job offer for UK Reader

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Dec 30, 2019 at 21:44	comment	added	J...		In addition to salary compensation, other factors should be considered as well (ie: benefits, pension, the lack of need for health insurance, etc) when coming up with the full value proposition.
Dec 30, 2019 at 14:07	vote	accept	wandering_academic
Dec 30, 2019 at 14:22
Dec 29, 2019 at 0:23	comment	added	Noah Snyder		Is some of the disconnect here that in the UK teaching is more standardized and so dept level decisions are more important relative to the US where most decisions about teaching are made by the professor for each individual class? Enough of the UK people on this thread are disagreeing with me to make me think I’m missing something, but most of what they’re saying doesn’t seem to me to map onto the Assistant/Associate difference in the US.
Dec 29, 2019 at 0:15	comment	added	Noah Snyder		I’m not sure if this is a UK/US difference or if my department is unusually inclusive of assistant professors, but I felt like I had a good amount of say in my department as an assistant professor and it hasn’t increased noticeably as an associate. I guess the main difference was that I am now able to serve on the hiring committee, which is a meaningful perk. I think multi-institution grants may be rarer in the US? I don’t know a meaningful number of people who have them at any rank.
Dec 28, 2019 at 20:55	comment	added	avid		The other meaningful difference between Assistant Prof and Reader is that you're considerably higher up the academic tree, which is likely to translate into (a) more opportunities to shape the department's overall direction in research & teaching, and (b) more invitations to participate in strategic projects (multi-institution grant applications etc). You may or may not see these as advantages.
Dec 27, 2019 at 23:20	history	answered	Noah Snyder	CC BY-SA 4.0