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[bojangles]

Kindly let us know how much notice you decided to give, Bo.

Well I received the offer letter via email this evening.  I must sign and then send it back to HR asap.  My current employer will be notified immediately and I have decided to give them 3 weeks notice and help with the transition.

Bo

[polly_mer]

Well, I would recommend more than two weeks notice unless you want to burn all bridges behind you. Most schools are at the stage of setting their fall schedules and getting close to student registration time. I would tell your immediate supervisor right after you've gotten and signed the final written contract from your new job. That way, they can either find someone to cover your classes or cancel them.

Does anyone listen?  I am not a faculty member.

You hadn't volunteered that information here until after prof_t posted (and scampster got to it before you did).

Seriously, why be a jerk to people who are trying to help you?

It was pretty clear from OP that he was not in a t-t position.  His comment about no longer having to be a consultant was a pretty big clue imo.

It was not clear to those of us who are in fields where faculty often work as consultants while also being faculty.  That's how I have supplemented by faculty pay and I know I'm not the only one.

[bojangles]

Well, I would recommend more than two weeks notice unless you want to burn all bridges behind you. Most schools are at the stage of setting their fall schedules and getting close to student registration time. I would tell your immediate supervisor right after you've gotten and signed the final written contract from your new job. That way, they can either find someone to cover your classes or cancel them.

Does anyone listen?  I am not a faculty member.

You hadn't volunteered that information here until after prof_t posted (and scampster got to it before you did).

Seriously, why be a jerk to people who are trying to help you?

It was pretty clear from OP that he was not in a t-t position.  His comment about no longer having to be a consultant was a pretty big clue imo.

It was not clear to those of us who are in fields where faculty often work as consultants while also being faculty.  That's how I have supplemented by faculty pay and I know I'm not the only one.

No, I am not faculty and had been working as a consultant through a temp agency for about 3 months now.

[voxprincipalis]

Well, I would recommend more than two weeks notice unless you want to burn all bridges behind you. Most schools are at the stage of setting their fall schedules and getting close to student registration time. I would tell your immediate supervisor right after you've gotten and signed the final written contract from your new job. That way, they can either find someone to cover your classes or cancel them.

Does anyone listen?  I am not a faculty member.

You hadn't volunteered that information here until after prof_t posted (and scampster got to it before you did).

Seriously, why be a jerk to people who are trying to help you?

It was pretty clear from OP that he was not in a t-t position.  His comment about no longer having to be a consultant was a pretty big clue imo.

It was not clear to those of us who are in fields where faculty often work as consultants while also being faculty.  That's how I have supplemented by faculty pay and I know I'm not the only one.

Not to mention that it's posted in the "Interview Process" forum. Leaving aside the fact that this is not even an interview-related question, this particular forum is for faculty searches. Administrative job-seekers are specifically invited to talk about all aspects of their administrative job-searches in the Administrative Track forum. That's the description of that particular forum. The default assumption of the Interview Process forum is that people posting there are involved in faculty searches.

Of course, one of the member-mods could move it, and maybe one of us will.

VP

[heptameron]

Thanks for letting us know what happened, Bo.  I'm wishing you the very best in your new job.  Sounds like a wonderful move!!!! 

[msparticularity]

Not to mention that it's posted in the "Interview Process" forum. Leaving aside the fact that this is not even an interview-related question, this particular forum is for faculty searches. Administrative job-seekers are specifically invited to talk about all aspects of their administrative job-searches in the Administrative Track forum. That's the description of that particular forum. The default assumption of the Interview Process forum is that people posting there are involved in faculty searches.

Of course, one of the member-mods could move it, and maybe one of us will.

VP

Vox, not to be argumentative, but I don't think that this is nearly as clear to the relative newcomer (or even the not-so-newcomer) as we may think it is. The job-search and interview threads appear to be aimed generally, while the nonTT, TT, mid-career, and administrative track threads would appear to be quite similar to one another, and aimed at those who already have jobs.

[voxprincipalis]

Vox, not to be argumentative, but I don't think that this is nearly as clear to the relative newcomer (or even the not-so-newcomer) as we may think it is. The job-search and interview threads appear to be aimed generally, while the nonTT, TT, mid-career, and administrative track threads would appear to be quite similar to one another, and aimed at those who already have jobs.

The first line in the description under "The Administrative Track" is this:

"Talk about your administrative job search"

How is this unclear?

Nevertheless, the OP's question is not at all related to interviews, so it's definitely in the wrong place no matter how you slice it.

VP

[scampster]

I do agree that there is some ambiguity based on General Topic Titles about where to ask about admin jobs (although as Voxy points out, this doesn't have to do with interviewing anyway). The thing that bugs me is that when the OP posts questions like this (and he/she has posted many, so this is a pattern), that they never mention that they aren't doing a faculty search. I don't see why they wouldn't, when it obviously affects the answers one would get. Why waste their own time getting useless feedback, as well as the time spent by well meaning forumites constructing responses that are completely irrelevant to the situation?

Even as a member with way too many posts here, I still preface my job search questions with something indicating that I am in STEM and looking at research universities. I don't expect everyone to remember that, although some probably do. But that's important information that affects the feedback I get, so of course I include it.

So the OP snapping at a relatively new poster trying to give feedback, which turns out to be irrelevant because of the assumption that they were talking about a faculty position, is ridiculous.

[msparticularity]

Vox, not to be argumentative, but I don't think that this is nearly as clear to the relative newcomer (or even the not-so-newcomer) as we may think it is. The job-search and interview threads appear to be aimed generally, while the nonTT, TT, mid-career, and administrative track threads would appear to be quite similar to one another, and aimed at those who already have jobs.

The first line in the description under "The Administrative Track" is this:

"Talk about your administrative job search"

How is this unclear?

Nevertheless, the OP's question is not at all related to interviews, so it's definitely in the wrong place no matter how you slice it.

VP

Yes, I know--but you have to get there first, and to wade through a whole set of threads that are quite specifically pointed toward those who already have jobs. The descriptions on the job-search and interview threads--which are what one comes across first--just invite people to talk about their job searches and interviews--with no mention that they mean faculty positions.

None of which is to say that Bojangles wasn't behaving like a jerk here; I just don't think the language on the job-search and interview threads is clear enough to provide guidance to the lost and confused. (Among whom I am often numbered.)