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Meaning that you will be able to apply for 200 open positions that never pan out, instead of just 100? I tend to measure my ease in finding a new job by the br

Meaning that you will be able to apply for 200 open positions that never pan out, instead of just 100? I tend to measure my ease in finding a new job by the brevity of the timespan between deciding to look and accepting an offer. Around here, that's usually 2-6 weeks. I don't usually apply to university positions, but for those I have attempted, I frequently see a delay of months between the time of application and their first attempt to put together an interview. None have ever been able to establish initial contact in less than 5 business days. Also, the postings frequently have bizarre requirements, such as requiring a masters in CS and 10 years of experience in C and Matlab, in order to write a glorified CRUD app that requires neither. The teaching positions might be different, but I have personally never found any year to be a good one to be looking for a university job.

throwawayjobsea 9y ago
> The teaching positions might be different They are very very very different. You have the normal "applications close on / for full consideration submit materials before [month] [day]" thing. But if you submit your application on that day (or anyways, pretend you did) then the typical schedule was something like: * phone interview the next week * onsite between one week and one month from phone interview * offer within a few days/weeks of onsite. Actually, my teaching job process moved much faster than my industry job process. Maybe at least in CS we need to move to a "rolling basis" style.
coreyp_1 9y ago
I only applied to 9 universities, all R1. After the rounds of interviews, I have received 3 offers so far, and am still waiting to hear back from the majority of the others. Each of the schools is hiring multiple positions, and I can only take one of the positions. The timeframe is longer, of course, but I am beginning to look for those jobs while finishing my PhD (e.g., still employed at my previous job as a grad student). It's no secret that schools generally hire within the timeframe of the academic year. It's different from industry, though, because schools must hire early enough so that they can schedule classes and plan teaching loads, and that means that it must be early enough for students to be able to register at the end of the previous (spring) semester, but the job itself doesn't begin until the fall. That's the nature of the academic calendar. As for speed of response, it has generally been quite quick, which is amazing given the committees that everything must go through. I have not had any experiences with bizarre requirements.

throwawayjobsea 9y ago

> The teaching positions might be different They are very very very different. You have the normal "applications close on / for full consideration submit materials before [month] [day]" thing. But if you submit your application on that day (or anyways, pretend you did) then the typical schedule was something like: * phone interview the next week * onsite between one week and one month from phone interview * offer within a few days/weeks of onsite. Actually, my teaching job process moved much faster than my industry job process. Maybe at least in CS we need to move to a "rolling basis" style.

coreyp_1 9y ago

I only applied to 9 universities, all R1. After the rounds of interviews, I have received 3 offers so far, and am still waiting to hear back from the majority of the others. Each of the schools is hiring multiple positions, and I can only take one of the positions. The timeframe is longer, of course, but I am beginning to look for those jobs while finishing my PhD (e.g., still employed at my previous job as a grad student). It's no secret that schools generally hire within the timeframe of the academic year. It's different from industry, though, because schools must hire early enough so that they can schedule classes and plan teaching loads, and that means that it must be early enough for students to be able to register at the end of the previous (spring) semester, but the job itself doesn't begin until the fall. That's the nature of the academic calendar. As for speed of response, it has generally been quite quick, which is amazing given the committees that everything must go through. I have not had any experiences with bizarre requirements.