Timeline for Why would a top department hire a less experienced researcher for a tenure-track position?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 30, 2014 at 0:51 | comment | added | ff524 | @Lohoris What I meant is, I have heard that hiring someone who has been a close collaborator with the department can give the appearance of impropriety (i.e., that it was not a fair search) and so some departments will avoid hiring close collaborators. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 9:10 | comment | added | Ben Webster | Sorry, I meant @ff524, not Lohoris. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 8:22 | comment | added | Ben Webster | @StephanKolassa I understand your point. I was just trying to interpret @Lohoris; it certainly is true that some kinds of collaboration will make you look more valuable, but others could make you look like you have too much overlap with a current faculty member (and hiring you might enhance their power in the department; don't forget department politics!). | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 8:17 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | I understand why a department wouldn't necessarily hire multiple people with very similar expertise. What would be more relevant would be the possibility to collaborate, possibly even across departments. My beautiful wife is a clinical psychologist and collaborates with the local medical school as well as with biologists, geneticists etc. all over the place. This improves the research profile of the entire department. So: don't look for similarities - look for synergies. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 8:10 | comment | added | Ben Webster | @Lohoris Sometimes departments don't like to hire too many close collaborators. At least many departments prefer breadth over having a deep group in a single area. They feel that hiring someone with very similar expertise to someone in the department doesn't add as much as someone with different interests. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 23:49 | comment | added | o0'. | @ff524 care to elaborate? | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 21:58 | history | edited | Stephan Kolassa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2014 at 21:28 | comment | added | ff524 | Candidate A might already have collaborated with members of the hiring department - I have heard this makes it more difficult for them to hire Candidate A. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 20:13 | history | answered | Stephan Kolassa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |