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Your rock band.
Your high school.
Your sorority or fraternity.
Non-scientific publications listed as if they were journal articles.
Articles or conference presentations listed without co-authors.
And my favorite: a link for your personal website with photos of your kids, hobbies, travel blogs, recipes, and so on.
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« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2011, 03:19:46 PM » |
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And my favorite: a link for your personal website with photos of your kids, hobbies, travel blogs, recipes, and so on.
Dear candidate,
I regret to inform you that you were not selected for an interview for our position. Although your credentials are strong, we felt that other candidates better met our needs. However, we tried your banana bread recipe, and it was delicious! Best of luck to you in your future endeavors, and would you happen to know a good technique for meringue? Mine keeps collapsing.
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« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2011, 04:13:26 PM » |
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Since it is dangerous and probably stupid to omit accounting for appreciable amounts of one's adult life in a c.v., one needs to use discernment wrt dealing with periods of un- or under-employment. That said, probably shouldn't say
1) 'My psychiatrist tells me I'm "almost cured"'.
2) Laundry room assistant, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, Aug. 2001- Sept. 2005
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« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2011, 05:10:40 PM » |
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Complete list of op-Ed letters written to the local paper under pubs.
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« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2011, 05:19:28 PM » |
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Oh -- were we supposed to stop at 10, Octo?
Of course not! We'll let it go a week or so, and then we'll have a vote for top ten. :o) It'll be a long long long poll. |
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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things... Mark Twain
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Professor Dumbledore
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And my favorite: a link for your personal website with photos of your kids, hobbies, travel blogs, recipes, and so on.
Indeed, if you have a department website, remove its link to your personal website before you go on the market. That's how we discovered that the book by a candidate for a "senior assistant or associate" position we'd advertised was self-published. |
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« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2011, 05:57:58 PM » |
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A link to your blog.
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« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2011, 06:05:40 PM » |
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The names of former PhD students, with an asterisk indicating "resigned from program."
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« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2011, 06:07:16 PM » |
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And my favorite: a link for your personal website with photos of your kids, hobbies, travel blogs, recipes, and so on.
Indeed, if you have a department website, remove its link to your personal website before you go on the market. That's how we discovered that the book by a candidate for a "senior assistant or associate" position we'd advertised was self-published. I have a "personal page" on my non-university hosted professional website. A lot of people seem to do so. It includes links to my wife's webpages etc. At my recent interview in Europe they pre-emptively were proposing a "spousal hire" on this basis. Maybe it hurt me some place, but maybe I don't want a job there. There are also links to my brother's website and a relatives artwork as well as a bunch more family history stuff. There isn't anything on hobbies/interests/pets/recipes/vacations etc. But a lot of people have those. And of course, my professional blog is linked. It gets far more hits than my website. And sometimes I mention it in applications as an indicator of "outreach". |
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« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2011, 09:08:37 PM » |
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19. Cologne
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« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2011, 09:17:28 PM » |
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20. That you won the "b*tchin' Award" from your department.
21. That you are an expert in restoring Corvettes and antique player pianos.
22. A chronological listing of every single thing you've done from your birth year to the present, including every single mail-order course you've taken.
23. An entire section devoted to "personal interests" which include amateur clarinetist and pianist, your Meyers-Briggs type indicator, and that you have "read more than 1100 volumes since 1960."
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« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2011, 09:57:27 PM » |
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We had one guy who listed his membership in the National Rifle Association. During the interview, it seemed he had done it just to get a rise out of all them 'liburuls" - IIRC it was an interview for a staff position, not a faculty job.
Here's one I would like to see:
Feng Shui consultant for California Penal System
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In my opinion, Secundem_artem is precisely correct.
I think secundem_artem, rather, has hit the nail on the head.
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« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2011, 10:32:04 PM » |
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24. List of offers of positions that the candidate has turned down (I have seen this.)
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« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2011, 10:43:09 PM » |
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25. Sexual orientation.
Under his name and address. "Heterosexual"
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« Reply #29 on: June 30, 2011, 10:56:09 PM » |
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I have seen list of rankings received in short-listings for full professor positions at various European universities. I thought this weird but maybe it is culture differs on this.
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