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Each season of the Bake Off (as the show is known in Britain) begins with 12 challengers, which — depending on the size of the applicant pool — is similar to the first-round-interview stage of a faculty search. Twice we had on-campus interviews at the same institution in the same hiring season: once...

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Published in:The Chronicle of higher education 2023-03
Main Author: Sconzert, Karin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic careers
Candidates
College campuses
Community colleges
Competition
Developmental Stages
Doctoral Programs
Elementary Secondary Education
Employment
Employment interviews
Hiring
Hollywood, Paul
Job Applicants
Job hunting
Job Search Methods
Labor market
Personnel Selection
Reality programming
Research Universities
Skills
Teaching
Teaching Experience
Tenure
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Summary:Each season of the Bake Off (as the show is known in Britain) begins with 12 challengers, which — depending on the size of the applicant pool — is similar to the first-round-interview stage of a faculty search. Twice we had on-campus interviews at the same institution in the same hiring season: once at a research university in Canada and then at a liberal-arts college in the rural Northeast. [...]as a faculty member now, I often find myself in the Paul Hollywood/Prue Leith role of evaluating candidates. At two different stages in our long search, my husband’s contract for temporary faculty positions ran out while I was in a tenure-track job. Since he already had plenty of teaching experience, he decided against trying to piece together adjunct work while he went back on the academic job market.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362