Jonathan Dantzig is the chairperson of the Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It has been his experience over the years that a variety of factors make competition for faculty positions very rigorous, so that relatively small mistakes on the application or during the interviewing process can eliminate a candidate.
He has observed capable candidates who damage their chances through a lack of understanding of the recruitment and hiring process. Landing an Academic Job: The Process and Pitfalls was written to help job seekers new to the procedures of academic hiring -- the new PhD or postdoc without faculty experience -- understand how that process works and give them a fair chance of success. |
