Timeline for Is it ethical to approach a professor asking for a (unadvertised) postdoc position?
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | Ari Trachtenberg | +1. I agree almost entirely. My only quibble is that you cannot separate the professor's ethical problem from yours quite so easily. As an extreme example, if the postdoc were funded by organized crime (and you knew this), you would still be ethically on the hook. | |
| Jul 1, 2014 at 15:59 | comment | added | Trylks | There is a reason for this. This is not a private company. Post-docs (and some other people) may be paid with public funding, therefore the professor cannot choose someone out of his whim. The position must be publicly advertised and the best candidate according to some objective criteria must be chosen. While this is not a big deal in post-docs it may be for tenured positions. Ethics aside, it's against the rules (maybe laws) and the selection process is a lie, but well... what isn't? | |
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| Jun 19, 2014 at 12:40 | comment | added | RoboKaren | It depends when and how you end employment. If it's in the middle of the semester and an important experiment and you are the only person who knows how to run it and you don't train a replacement, that may leave hard feelings. If you notifyin March that you are taking a new position in August and that you are happy to wrap up all loose ends, you're advisor will be much happier. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 11:50 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | This is not uncommon in some countries I am familiar with. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 11:46 | comment | added | xLeitix | @DmitrySavostyanov There's no ethical concern, but the answer will likely be that (s)he can't do that. | |
| Jun 19, 2014 at 11:45 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | Thank you for your answer. Do you think that the ethical situation with early career positions like Assist Prof or Lecturer is the same? I.e. there are no ethical concerns to activate your network and ask a friendly Head of Dept to open a position for you? | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 21:27 | history | answered | xLeitix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |