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The final pre-offer stage of most academic hiring processes is the "on-campus interview". This is when the candidates come, one at a time, spend a day on campus, give talks, speak with faculty, etc. …

You will probably never know the full reason, because departments are not quick to air their internal issues with job candidates. But here are a few possible reasons: The search was halted by higher …

I had to submit undergraduate and graduate transcripts to several schools each time I applied for jobs in mathematics. I believe the main reason is simply to allow the school to verify that you really …

There are a few things I would keep in mind. The first is whether the person you are negotiating with is able to give you the thing you ask for. For example, the university probably has a fixed poli …

Congrats on getting a tenure track position! You are not the first person to whom this has happened. Of course, there may be specific circumstances that make the early departure more difficult - sa …

Another statistic: according to Wikipedia the 62 institutions of the Association of American Universities (AAU) issue 52% of doctoral degrees in the U.S. So, in the U.S. system, even if we discount an …

I sympathize with your situation - recursion theory as a whole is essentially the size of a sub-subfield in other areas of mathematics. Of the relatively small number of U.S. departments with logic pr …

Congratulations on making the short list! There is no way to tell from the outside what the school is doing, but there is also little that you can do to change it at this point. If the school's answe …

In my experience, very few 4-year ("university") institutions in the United States still offer tenured positions to faculty without terminal degrees in their field (except in very unusual circumstance …

When during the application process should a candidate say that their spouse is also looking for a job? The issue of academic spouses who want to find employment close enough to live together is c …

I don't think that most candidates are very good at faking interest. So, ask the questions you are genuinely interested in, and your interest will show through. It is true that you have to give the be …

Faculty come and go all the time at universities. Although we may hope a tenure-track hire will stick around for a decade or more, in practice we know many examples of people who have left voluntarily …

From my perspective at a regional university: most of our hires in math are new PhDs or have just a few years after PhD. But the application you need to be competitive for teaching-focused schools an …

Ignoring any philosophical debates about whether it is good to work for less: what you are trying to do will be challenging simply because of the way that ordinary academic hiring is done in the U.S. …

The most important point is that jobs vary significantly by discipline. If you are in the field of Cognitive Science, or in a related field, you are in a better position to know what a job ad in that …