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It sounds pretty odd that you didn't get any responses. As someone in a similar job situation, it would be interesting to know what you think the reason was? Di
by thomasahle 7y ago
It sounds pretty odd that you didn't get any responses. As someone in a similar job situation, it would be interesting to know what you think the reason was? Did one of your references work against you?
- borroka 7y agoNot really odd, generally speaking. Only a small proportion of postdocs (<10% in my field is my estimate) get a TT position. Nobody in my Ph.D. cohort got any and we are all well beyond our academic expiration date. The main reasons for my lack of success were: a Ph.D. from a foreign country; a prestigious fellowship from a foreign institution; a non-US model system I used for my research; the wrong gender. They all made me and my advisors/sponsors (those who dedicated more than one minute to think about my career) overestimate my chances of landing a TT position at a research university. In any case, I have been very happy with my career change. What I do now is much more aligned with my personality and I now know I would have not been happy in a TT position. In particular, since myself and long-term commitment took divergent roads many years ago, the difficulties in changing institution after starting TT would have put me in a pretty bad mental place.