not get an academic job for several years? Nice person, too.
What's going on?
How can a guy with Harvard degree and solo APSR
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We talk about the market but there are really like 10 separate markets that are all unique depending on sub-field, quant/qual, teaching/research and so on. 1 person getting a job in x market has little to do with outcomes in a different market. We are not all competing for the same jobs and very few places are willing to do a best available type search.
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Same subfield?
Wrong gender.
There must be more to the story. Another Harvard guy with zero solo pubs (has APSR and AJPS, but co-authored with more senior people) got a Yale TT job and a Stanford post-doc last year.If this is who I think it is, then yes (American).
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Same subfield?
Wrong gender.
There must be more to the story. Another Harvard guy with zero solo pubs (has APSR and AJPS, but co-authored with more senior people) got a Yale TT job and a Stanford post-doc last year.If this is who I think it is, then yes (American).
Initials?
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Same subfield?
Wrong gender.
There must be more to the story. Another Harvard guy with zero solo pubs (has APSR and AJPS, but co-authored with more senior people) got a Yale TT job and a Stanford post-doc last year.
If this is who I think it is, then yes (American).Initials?
PB
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Hard luck. He had Snyder and Enos on his committee. Both are known to be insecure j3rks who sabotage students who dare outperform them. To make matters worse the first time he went on the market was during Enos’ tenure review year, so they competed for the same jobs.
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Interviews matter. People can be great on paper, but it won't matter if you don't nail the campus visit. Or, at least perform reasonably well.
This is true in general, but I doubt this guy, who is a native speaker, did worse in his interviews than the Japanese guy who landed the Yale job.
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demand side here. Your assumption is less than wise. English skills are not the main reason most job talks are terrible.
Interviews matter. People can be great on paper, but it won't matter if you don't nail the campus visit. Or, at least perform reasonably well.
This is true in general, but I doubt this guy, who is a native speaker, did worse in his interviews than the Japanese guy who landed the Yale job.
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demand side here. Your assumption is less than wise. English skills are not the main reason most job talks are terrible.
Interviews matter. People can be great on paper, but it won't matter if you don't nail the campus visit. Or, at least perform reasonably well.
This is true in general, but I doubt this guy, who is a native speaker, did worse in his interviews than the Japanese guy who landed the Yale job.Correct take. Also, it ain't just the job talk that matters. Every single meeting with individual faculty member matter. Every meeting with the provost matters. I've seen a lot of candidates sink their cases in those 1-on-1 meetings.
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demand side here. Your assumption is less than wise. English skills are not the main reason most job talks are terrible.
Interviews matter. People can be great on paper, but it won't matter if you don't nail the campus visit. Or, at least perform reasonably well.
This is true in general, but I doubt this guy, who is a native speaker, did worse in his interviews than the Japanese guy who landed the Yale job.I've witnessed enough interviews to know that English skills do affect candidates' ability to both understand the question they're being asked, and answer it effectively. Granted, English skills alone won't take anyone very far if there's not much substance to communicate. But I suspect someone with a Harvard degree and a solo APSR is at least a decent candidate.
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demand side here. Your assumption is less than wise. English skills are not the main reason most job talks are terrible.
Interviews matter. People can be great on paper, but it won't matter if you don't nail the campus visit. Or, at least perform reasonably well.
This is true in general, but I doubt this guy, who is a native speaker, did worse in his interviews than the Japanese guy who landed the Yale job.I've witnessed enough interviews to know that English skills do affect candidates' ability to both understand the question they're being asked, and answer it effectively. Granted, English skills alone won't take anyone very far if there's not much substance to communicate. But I suspect someone with a Harvard degree and a solo APSR is at least a decent candidate.
Sure, he's obviously a decent candidate. But your presumption that a non-native speaker could not possibly have done better in the multi-day interview than the subject of this thread is... misguided. You simply don't have the relevant information to make that claim.
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demand side here. Your assumption is less than wise. English skills are not the main reason most job talks are terrible.
Interviews matter. People can be great on paper, but it won't matter if you don't nail the campus visit. Or, at least perform reasonably well.
This is true in general, but I doubt this guy, who is a native speaker, did worse in his interviews than the Japanese guy who landed the Yale job.
I've witnessed enough interviews to know that English skills do affect candidates' ability to both understand the question they're being asked, and answer it effectively. Granted, English skills alone won't take anyone very far if there's not much substance to communicate. But I suspect someone with a Harvard degree and a solo APSR is at least a decent candidate.Sure, he's obviously a decent candidate. But your presumption that a non-native speaker could not possibly have done better in the multi-day interview than the subject of this thread is... misguided. You simply don't have the relevant information to make that claim.
https://lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/shiraito.html
this guy's job talk was bad. could not understand his english. but he got the job.