John Regehr's Job Search Page

John Regehr's Job Search Advice (Cool -- this page has been translated into Romanian.) There's a lot of good information on the web about conducting an academic job search; here's my small contribution based on a two-body search in Spring 2003. Overall impressions: You should read relevant chapters from Tomorrow's Professor by Reis. Some aspects of interviewing are very enjoyable -- you get to: Meet a lot of smart people who are interested in you and your work. Make contacts in your field. Learn about how universities other than yours work. Start forming your own opinions about the relative strengths of different departments -- for me, at least, these are often substantially different from the published rankings. Learn about many research projects you probably wouldn't have otherwise heard of. Travel to interesting places. Go to a lot of good restaurants. On the other hand: Interviewing is exhausting even when it goes well, and you should expect to get very little real work done

John Regehr's Job Search Page John Regehr's Job Search Advice (Cool -- this page has been translated into Romanian .) There's a lot of good information on the web about conducting an academic job search; here's my small contribution based on a two-body search in Spring 2003. Overall impressions: You should read relevant chapters from Tomorrow's Professor by Reis. Some aspects of interviewing are very enjoyable -- you get to: Meet a lot of smart people who are interested in you and your work. Make contacts in your field. Learn about how universities other than yours work. Start forming your own

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