Hi All,
I am an ECR and have had two rather strange interview experiences the past week. Not looking so much for advice, but venting. Both were for teaching jobs, and chosen because I believed, from the job descriptions, that both were compatible with my research. The job descriptions significantly changed at both interviews. Here's what happened:
Interview no.1: "Although this post is advertised at 0.5, would you be happy to teach multiple seminars five days a week?" Well, if I wanted to do that, I would have applied for a similar job at my own institution for twice the pay. The whole interview was a catalogue of errors from start to finish, and it was only my partner saying it would be a black mark that stopped me from withdrawing from the process immediately afterwards - pretty appalled by the dept. for various reasons, but the changing of what was required stood out.
Interview no 2. Far nicer people, but ... they asked if I could teach four modules that were NOT ON THE JOB DESCRIPTION, and the ones that I had been prepared to say something about. They said something about having "new teaching needs", and by the way, could I move to location X at one week's notice ?! It seemed a bit unfair to spring new modules upon me at interview, and then say I didn't "meet their teaching needs." Well of course I bloody didn't as I hadn't a clue they had suddenly changed - as it was, I wouldn't have taken that either as the teaching load was more than officially advertised.
Is this diverging from the job description without warning candidates normal? Institution no.1, in particular, was a complete waste of my time.
So, I find myself without an official job at the moment, but a research project for this year, invitations to present at major conferences, and an invitation to write a paper for a decent journal - doesn't strike me as a bad position to be in.
Just a vent! Wonder if anyone has experienced anything similar?
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Godstopper · 18/08/2017 17:48
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