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Will it be possible to get a job without an ASR, AJS, SF, SP post-pandemic?
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yes. if you have good pubs in other good journals and are a good fit for the job. even for open searches, it is always about fit.
“Fit” is total bs. It just means we like this candidate more, and can plausibly argue that they meet the published qualifications.
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yes. if you have good pubs in other good journals and are a good fit for the job. even for open searches, it is always about fit.
�Fit� is total bs. It just means we like this candidate more, and can plausibly argue that they meet the published qualifications.That's what "fit" means, though. Once you get into the top 10 or so candidates, everyone is generally absurdly qualified. So departments generally go with who they like the best as a potential colleague. Of course, "fit" also means how you are perceived to fit into department political struggles that have been going on since before you were born.
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yes. if you have good pubs in other good journals and are a good fit for the job. even for open searches, it is always about fit.
?Fit? is total bs. It just means we like this candidate more, and can plausibly argue that they meet the published qualifications.
That's what "fit" means, though. Once you get into the top 10 or so candidates, everyone is generally absurdly qualified. So departments generally go with who they like the best as a potential colleague. Of course, "fit" also means how you are perceived to fit into department political struggles that have been going on since before you were born.That was my point. “Fit” has nothing to do with merit. It’s a buzzword we use to rationalize discrimination on non-merit based qualifications.
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yes. if you have good pubs in other good journals and are a good fit for the job. even for open searches, it is always about fit.
?Fit? is total bs. It just means we like this candidate more, and can plausibly argue that they meet the published qualifications.
That's what "fit" means, though. Once you get into the top 10 or so candidates, everyone is generally absurdly qualified. So departments generally go with who they like the best as a potential colleague. Of course, "fit" also means how you are perceived to fit into department political struggles that have been going on since before you were born.
That was my point. �Fit� has nothing to do with merit. It�s a buzzword we use to rationalize discrimination on non-merit based qualifications.this 100%. "Fit" is a term used to justify inequalities of status in our discipline. The Cornell PhD somehow is a good "fit" but the Central Michigan PhD is somehow a bad "fit".
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yes. if you have good pubs in other good journals and are a good fit for the job. even for open searches, it is always about fit.
?Fit? is total bs. It just means we like this candidate more, and can plausibly argue that they meet the published qualifications.
That's what "fit" means, though. Once you get into the top 10 or so candidates, everyone is generally absurdly qualified. So departments generally go with who they like the best as a potential colleague. Of course, "fit" also means how you are perceived to fit into department political struggles that have been going on since before you were born.
That was my point. �Fit� has nothing to do with merit. It�s a buzzword we use to rationalize discrimination on non-merit based qualifications.It's a job market, not a box ticking effort. Fit matters because you are selecting a co-worker, not a paper writing machine. There is nothing inherently unfair with that, though there might be cases in which it's used for unfair reasons.
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Maybe you folks have bad luck to work in dysfunctional departments. Or maybe I have good luck. But when we use fit to evaluate candidates, it's more about what topics they study and whether their research profile (above and beyond quality/quantity) fits with how we're trying to develop our department.