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Have Math searches moved to fall?
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Job Search
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By dkung
Posted Thu Jan 03, 2008 at 07:29:58 AM PDT
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As recently as 10 years ago, you never would have heard of a college or university going finishing a job search before the New Year. There were many advantages to this sort of system for both sides of the interview table.
Word on the street is that times are changing. More below the fold...
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| Several friends have now completed their job searches even before the Joint Meetings have begun. What does that mean for applicants? What does it mean for schools looking to hire?
It's been a while now since I sat on the other side of the table, but one thing seems rather symmetric. The Joint Meetings provide an opportunity feel out if a particular job-candidate pairing is a reasonable fit. From both sides I have had that "This isn't going to work out." feeling in the first ten minutes of an interview. And sometimes this happened despite everything looking good on paper.
So with more schools moving up their searches, it makes me wonder if those poor-fits aren't going to be discovered until committees and candidates meet on campus. That seems like a huge waste of time (on both sides) and money (on the school's side). It potentially means that schools and hires won't be ideally matched (OK, I realize that the current algorithm doesn't do that either, but it might be closer.)
Of course, from the perspective of each school, moving their search up is a great idea. They get a chance to woo their top candidates before other schools even meet them.
We've seen exactly this sort of greedy-calendar-creep in other arenas (Iowans are sitting down to caucus tonight, 10 months before the actual Presidential election and two weeks before they did in the last cycle.) I hope that in both cases, cooler heads eventually prevail and we return to a more reasonable calendar.
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