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Anon
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2002, 10:35:41 AM » |
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The way you ask about "management" rather than administration, and call yourself an employee, rather than a faculty or staff member, makes me wonder what sort of background you have and what sort of job you seek.
Normally people don't apply for teaching jobs that are not a good fit, and rarely get shortlisted or offered jobs that are not a good fit, even if they apply for them. The scattershot approach to job hunting, where you send out many CV's to as many jobs as you can find, regardless of fit, rarely gets many positive outcomes. It usually brings 100 rejection letters, which is not surprising, but disappoints people who think that if they just apply to a lot of jobs, one will work out.
Certainly it is common for people with jobs to apply for other, better jobs. Academic job searches are supposed to be confidential, and normally people are pretty good about this. It is always possible, however, that even if you let your prospective employer know that you wish your application to be confidential, someone on the search committee knows the chair of your department and calls them to say you are trying to jump ship. I was just told by my department chair that he knew a certain faculty member had applied for a job elsewhere because people in the other department called and told him.
If a candidate was shortlisted for a seemingly good job, had an on-campus interview and found the prospective school to be awful or the colleagues crazy or the location impossible to live in, then certainly, the candidate would turn such a job down.
On the other hand, if you've selected your targets well, researched the school for monkey business (the Web site of the American Association of University Professors is a good place to start), and have done some research on the people you'd be working with, you should not have to turn down many offers, if any at all.
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