Interviews this season

Since the number of interviews is increasing at a rather rapid pace, I am going to keep a log of progress here:

Phone/Google_hangout/skype Interview(s) = 3 4 5 8 11 12          

On-Campus Interview(s) accepted = 1 2 34
On-Campus Interview(s) request declined = 12
On-Campus Interview(s) completed = 1234

Offer(s) = 1  (YES ! )

Another Interview

Hi all

I went to another interview for a faculty position. The university is in a small town of a state and is very pleasant surrounded by river, lake, green trees and mountains...although I have never lived in a place like this (it has been big cities all my life).

The interview also seemed to go very well. The appointment is suppose to be between two academic departments, and seems that it can be a good fit, although I am still thinking seriously about pros and cons. The visit seemed to be very pleasant, the faculty seemed to think that my research is important (in both depts) and my seminar went very well, it looks promising.

They have 3 other candidates, so I am not sure what will happen.

Time will tell...

preparing for the faculty appointment visit

I think the adrenaline from yesterday has wearied off today. Now, that I can think clearly I have realized that I have to give a seminar.

Got a call from the secretary that the visit had to pushed back a week because of the conflict in schedule. Looks like I will be working my ass off on preparing the slides and yes, practicing them !

I have chosen two projects that I would like to talk about. Both are great projects, from two broad fields that I have worked on in the past.

The reason for choosing these two is: It would show the faculty my diversity, since both the projects are from related fields but generally people don't work on both of them. Also both the projects are in depth, which will show them my depth. Last but not least I have prepared two cool potential applications of my project that I will like to show them off at the end. Hope it all goes well.

The agony may be over :D

Today, I am happy. Got an email from one of the departments that I applied to for a faculty position.
They wanted to invite me for an on-site interview. I am excited...yayy !

I have a prepare a talk though. I do have bit and pieces of talks that I have given recently, but all of the talks have been geared towards experts in the field. As I have been suggested (by blogosphere: http://scientopia.org/blogs/drbecca/tt-job-search-advice-aggregator/) that I have to give one that is geared towards no-experts. Let see how it goes.
If any one else has pearls of wisdom for job talk, let me know.

The agony of waiting

Recently, I have been waiting for many things i.e. waiting for my papers to come back after peer review; and results of the faculty applications that I have submitted to various places.

As it turns out, that I got the reviews of the paper back. There were three reviewers. Two of them said accept and one said reject. Lo and behold, the editor said that they are going to reject the paper. The issue that the third reviewer had raised is a controversial one in the field, and we (as a lab) tilt towards the other camp. In either case, the reviewer seems to be a big wig, the editor has said reject to the paper. I know, it does not make sense.

On the other hand, I did get a call from a faculty the other day. They wanted to phone interview me. Needless, to say I was awesome and the interview went very fine (I think !). Lets see if they are going to call me for an onsite interview. Its looks good though, since one of my recommenders told me that the department called and wanted to ask more about me. So, the wait is on !