any word on who got the Syracuse and Stanford calls/jobs?
Middle east jobs
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My department (LAC) has tried to hire ME on and off for years. Without exception, the candidates flat-out suck. Has this been anyone else's experience? It can't be that all good ME candidates get great R1 jobs, leaving nothing but awful ME candidates, right?
Too emotional and polarized?
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My department (LAC) has tried to hire ME on and off for years. Without exception, the candidates flat-out suck. Has this been anyone else's experience? It can't be that all good ME candidates get great R1 jobs, leaving nothing but awful ME candidates, right?
ME in our program has been the area with the best placement in the living memory of the department as well as the biggest dumpster fire in the living memory of the department. So in our experience at least, ME has been an all-or-nothing situation.
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My department (LAC) has tried to hire ME on and off for years. Without exception, the candidates flat-out suck. Has this been anyone else's experience? It can't be that all good ME candidates get great R1 jobs, leaving nothing but awful ME candidates, right?
In the past: Yes. Today: You should be able to hire decent people. If not, you're doing a poor job filtering candidates.
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My department (LAC) has tried to hire ME on and off for years. Without exception, the candidates flat-out suck. Has this been anyone else's experience? It can't be that all good ME candidates get great R1 jobs, leaving nothing but awful ME candidates, right?
In the past: Yes. Today: You should be able to hire decent people. If not, you're doing a poor job filtering candidates.
Well, it's been about five years, but I can't see how the candidate pool was revolutionized in the interim.
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My department (LAC) has tried to hire ME on and off for years. Without exception, the candidates flat-out suck. Has this been anyone else's experience? It can't be that all good ME candidates get great R1 jobs, leaving nothing but awful ME candidates, right?
In our program one ME person was the best placement in nearly two decades. Another was the biggest disaster in nearly two decades. So, for us anyway, ME has been feast or famine.
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I believe one of the problems with doing research in MENA is the difficulty of collecting cool data & conducting innovative experiments due to obvious governmental constraints.
Yes, if only these MENA people had an entire subcontinent they could parachute into, stay in fancy hotels and pay the unwashed locals to do their bidding for them, calling it an experiment in the end. That would make them truly great scholars!
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Yes, if only these MENA people had an entire subcontinent they could parachute into, stay in fancy hotels and pay the unwashed locals to do their bidding for them, calling it an experiment in the end. That would make them truly great scholars!
Like African Politics?