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Questions on the process of advertising, selecting, interviewing, and possibly hiring individuals for academic positions.

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How often do professors regret accepting particular graduate students (i.e., "bad hires")?

Once you're doing the recruiting well, you can expect that for every five people you hire, on average one will be an extremely good hire, and three will do the job well enough. …
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