With several Ph.D. students finishing their degrees in a given year — some probably even applying for
the same faculty jobs, all seeking letters from the same adviser — the jockeying can be intense.
Not exact matches
In addition to the established
faculty and other established positions, we have other
jobs within our universities that we need to be thinking about in the
same way
The researchers also uncovered a systematic bias against women with elite doctorates, who slid further down the hierarchy in their
faculty jobs compared with men from the
same institutions.
In the biological sciences, the Ph.D. - to -
faculty ratio is 0.24, indicating, with the
same career - length assumptions, that about 21 % of those with Ph.D. s in these fields can expect
faculty jobs.
At the
same time that the female percentage of entering medical classes and medical school
faculties has risen, the authors note, a second category of full - time academic
jobs — the clinician - educator track (CET)-- has grown rapidly, alongside the traditional tenure track (TTT).
They were determined to stay together, seeking
faculty positions in the
same city, even the
same institution, and they started a family just as they began searching for
jobs.
So, your main
job as a
faculty applicant remains the
same: to convince the hiring committee that you can do the
job well, and that life with you in their midst will be pleasant and stress - free.
Aligning their plans and ambitions helped a dual - career couple find two
faculty jobs at the
same institution.