weird, I personally like people who will publish. Very few seniors I know (although there are a few whose papers are easy to throw out) are willing to give coauthorship when it’s inappropriate. I look at the informative signal (what they will do over the course of their career by being able to work with other people) as opposed to their one solo-authored paper.
Take a look at the top people at places like MIT, Wharton and Stanford over the last ten or twenty years and you might be surprised how many never published their dissertation. It’s not as overwhelming as people make it out to be here.It’s not badmouthing any candidate. We’d rather hire a candidate with a good pipeline and a solid jmp (regardless of R&R) than a candidate with R&Rs and pubs with their senior faculty but a weak dissertation. Besides that, presentation is what matters most. A candidate who knows how to write a good dissertation and present well knows how to do research. The same cannot necessarily be said about a candidate that piggybacks on the shoulders of seniors
Those here bad mouthing JMCs with published co-authored papers are very sinical! Tell me who at PhD level gets work published without co-authors these days? Who? If a JMC has no RRs/Pubs their application go down the list, if so, they are glorified RAs. That's hypocrisy at its best form. I hope this view is just voiced by angry m.f. and not a reflection of the hiring system.
...it is called traffic of influence. If we didn't have Jar & Jae things would have been way more different.