Month: November 2015

David D. Perlmutter. “Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Detecting a Bad Fit.” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 3, 2015.   Academic Job Hunts From Hell: Detecting a Bad Fit How do you recognize when a department with a job opening is not the place for you? Observatorio Ocupacional / Creative Commons By David D. Perlmutter November 01, 2015 You took the job because you thought it seemed like a good fit and, after all, it was a tenure-track offer. Then you arrive on the campus only to find yourself trapped in a bog. Maybe the problem is bait-and-switch support, where the department promises much more than it intends or is able to give. Maybe the faculty culture turns out to be toxic, and you spend every day praying for deliverance from your sniping, backstabbing colleagues. Maybe the administrators in charge are petty tyrants who have no management principles beyond paranoia and punishment. Or, as is very common nowadays, departments may...