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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 …

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 want to be friendly, of course, and make a good impression. Depending on the school, these meetings are not usually too grueling; one purpose of the meetings is just to put a face with your name. …

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 …

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 …

As a mathematician, I don't view an Erdős number as a sign of merit in any serious way. It's more of a cultural in-joke. There are over 9,000 people with Erdős number 2, and far more than that with …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

You may want to read the answers to the question When during the application process should a candidate mention that their spouse is also looking for a job . In general, there are several positions o …

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 …

Is there some good indicator that a certain position might consider me for a TT position, even though I'll be a new PhD? Not really - this is one reason that many people apply so broadly. If you …