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[dillywilly]

Actually, my husband recently got a campus invite and I'm trying like mad to figure out how many others are invited. I wish people would update. I'm assuming it is the standard three, but he also had a really positive phone call from the chair of the department (not on the SC) that made it seem like he's the person they want. They talked for a while. There's also a VAP there, so maybe he automatically gets an invite? I wish there would be an update. Oh well. It doesn't matter, I guess.

I'm in the same situation as your husband, but I don't want to update the wiki because I have a feeling that the SC or someone at the college put it up (partly because they wrote it in singular). Might try the "my friend was interviewed" to see if anything shakes out.

[notaprof]

The norm is three campus invites at our school but my colleagues are bringing four to campus in January for one search because they are excited about all four and just could not narrow it down to three.  If anyone on that search committee talked to any one of the four candidates, there would have been much enthusiasm because they will be thrilled to have any one of the four in the group.  The applicant field was that strong.

It was mentioned by my friend on the search committee that as a sign of how tough the market is these days, they received 297 applications and only 5 were from candidates that did not meet the criteria.  It was very tough to narrow the field down to the 14 that they called for a phone interview and there was much blood, sweat and tears spent narrowing down to four for the on-campus interview. 

So feel good about your husband making it to the campus invite stage.  Best wishes to westcoastgirl's husband and dillywilly.

[westcoastgirl]

The norm is three campus invites at our school but my colleagues are bringing four to campus in January for one search because they are excited about all four and just could not narrow it down to three.  If anyone on that search committee talked to any one of the four candidates, there would have been much enthusiasm because they will be thrilled to have any one of the four in the group.  The applicant field was that strong.

It was mentioned by my friend on the search committee that as a sign of how tough the market is these days, they received 297 applications and only 5 were from candidates that did not meet the criteria.  It was very tough to narrow the field down to the 14 that they called for a phone interview and there was much blood, sweat and tears spent narrowing down to four for the on-campus interview. 

So feel good about your husband making it to the campus invite stage.  Best wishes to westcoastgirl's husband and dillywilly.

Thanks much. The campus invite is really important because of our logistical problems. I'm guessing it's the usual three or four but it's weird since there are a pool of folks applying to the same 20 jobs or so and it seems like most are active on wiki since the updates are pretty consistent. Nothing but time can tell and there's no use in thinking about it.

My husband himself was on a SC. Narrowing down the "three" was harder than anything. He said is was ridiculously complicated and there were a lot of politics involved.

[tortugaphd]

But it only takes a minute to make an account which will hide your identity. 
(Personally, I don't really feel like my IP address reveals my identity.)
I update the Wiki in order to help out others in my position, and because I would hope that others would extend the same help to me.

Thanks!  I wish I had known to create an account to hide my IP address earlier.  I just went onto the "history" page and saw my IP address up there, and if I run it through an IP lookup site, it reveals my town.  Not happy about that.  I'm in the awkward position of job searching while I have a job, and if someone at my institution was that dogged about snooping on me, they could figure out that I interviewed.  There's no one else in that field here, and any potential grad student who is in that field here is not ready to be on the market, yet... so it's obvious that it's me. :/

[harrapsempire]

If that makes you feel better, I know plenty of young, tech-savvy young people who don't know about this, so if the people in your department don't read this thread, they might not have figured out that ip thing.

[tortugaphd]

If that makes you feel better, I know plenty of young, tech-savvy young people who don't know about this, so if the people in your department don't read this thread, they might not have figured out that ip thing.

Thanks.  You're right.  I was probably overreacting spending half an evening stressing out about this.

[glowdart]

But it only takes a minute to make an account which will hide your identity. 
(Personally, I don't really feel like my IP address reveals my identity.)
I update the Wiki in order to help out others in my position, and because I would hope that others would extend the same help to me.

Thanks!  I wish I had known to create an account to hide my IP address earlier.  I just went onto the "history" page and saw my IP address up there, and if I run it through an IP lookup site, it reveals my town.  Not happy about that.  I'm in the awkward position of job searching while I have a job, and if someone at my institution was that dogged about snooping on me, they could figure out that I interviewed.  There's no one else in that field here, and any potential grad student who is in that field here is not ready to be on the market, yet... so it's obvious that it's me. :/

I wonder if there's a way to create an account after the fact that's associated with those posts/ that ip address that will then hide your ip address under that account name?  (I don't actually know if this is possible... musing out loud here....)

[zengazenga]

A check-in and a note:

Check-In: I submitted my diss a couple of weeks ago and defend on Friday. I haven't heard back from the 4 interviews I had these past couple of months, and now that the diss is out of my hands, I've been staring out the window quite a bit, wondering about what all this silence might mean.

Not true. I have done more than that -- I just finished reading all 38 pages of this thread (!) and it's been really helpful. It's helped me realize how fortunate I have been in getting the interviews that I did -- two of them for TT positions, even. I've never thought of myself as a superstar, so they've boosted my confidence for next year's search.

But I wanted to, more than anything, send a note of thanks for everyone here who contributed their fears, hopes, and advice to us ABDs, past, present, and future. Although I don't know any of you, you've made me feel like I'm in great company. Now, I don't need to stare out into space since so many of my questions have been answered.

Thank you. :)

[promovenda]

Best wishes for tomorrow, zengazenga!

[balefulregardss]

I just received the offer...the holy grail, it seems. TT position at a good state Uni, Handing in the Diss in 10 days ( tick tock, tick tock)

I've asked for the 10 days to consider as I have one more campus interview this week scheduled and want to make sure...although I am pretty darn sure about the offer and school. A big move for us, but a job and a place to settle.

It's been a hellacious spring - told in December that I had one less year to do my dissertation than I previously thought and it was due April 15...which meant that our Visa's wouldn't be extended...with me one year post a very bad clinical depression that took a full year and medication change to finally see improvement....Combined with job hunting ( oh, and parenting a teen...)

Yes, I got campus visits ( and know how lucky I was to get them)...but after the 4th one I began to think it really WAS me.

So a very good luck to all. Truly.