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[adjunchan]

Hello all

first time poster.

I had a campus interview exactly two weeks ago. It is a SLAC in a nice West Coast city, and the SC looks very efficient.

I was the first to be invited, and the Chair of the SC said that he would have a few candidates after me, and then make a decision very soon.

After that I have not heard anything. Is it a bad situation?

Actually, I am a sort of 'insider', an adjunct faculty for a year there. I know the SC already met after the interviews. I don't know when they met, but definitely before yesterday.

This means, are they contacting someone else?

[seniorscholar]

Depends on the school -- sometimes the search committee makes the decision but has to get a sign-off from the Dean and/or HR and/or about sixteen other offices . . . and now comes the time when people are busy grading, or taking time off for their children's appearances in the holiday play, or [you name it]. Give it a while before you despair. And then remember that even when someone else gets the call first, that person may stall for several weeks before turning down the offer, and if you're number 2 you may still be in.

[csguy]

I had a campus interview exactly two weeks ago. It is a SLAC in a nice West Coast city, and the SC looks very efficient.

They may well still be interviewing.

[brashash]

Seniorscholar: in your experience either serving on SCs or being a job candidate, how often do you find that the first selected turns down the offer, giving the person in second place a chance to consider the job? I'm trying to find hope in my own pathetic way.

Csguy: I'm rooting for you!!

[seniorscholar]

Searching my brain (which may not be at all accurate), I think that in the last 9 searches here, the first person offered the position turned it down (eventually -- in one case not until we had said "enough postponements: accept it by noon tomorrow or it's off the table") three times. We are a decent R-1 in a "desirable" location. In two cases, spouses on the market in different fields accounted for the refusal.