A Postdoc at HRM with two pubs (not top but second top fields), applied widely even in low ranked schools (where my pubs are better than most recent APs). No interviews. My PhD is from LRM, but I didn’t expect zero interviews at all.
The market is brutal
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Its possible that everyone thought you're not a good fit for them. The lower ranked schools might think you won't join them because of your HRM post doc. The mid to high ranked schools might have taken into account your LRM phd and ruled you out. Just my thought.
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I didn’t go to the market because I got that postdoc (it was a two year position and I managed to both publish, teach, do admin tasks like an AP), not sure what to do now.
But others went to market in that normal year and got TT jobs. Ergo, you know you were going to fail the market in a normal year, or you would have gone for a TT job rather than a postdoc, correct?
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I didn’t go to the market because I got that postdoc (it was a two year position and I managed to both publish, teach, do admin tasks like an AP), not sure what to do now.
But others went to market in that normal year and got TT jobs. Ergo, you know you were going to fail the market in a normal year, or you would have gone for a TT job rather than a postdoc, correct?
Because I wanted to go to an HRM place once in my life, and I hope this will open doors to better placements. How wrong was I?
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Your best pubs are in secondary field journals. You showed your type. Why should departments consider you when there are many candidates out there with a clean slate and higher option value in this kind of market? I am surprised that you are surprised.
A Postdoc at HRM with two pubs (not top but second top fields), applied widely even in low ranked schools (where my pubs are better than most recent APs). No interviews. My PhD is from LRM, but I didn’t expect zero interviews at all.
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Your best pubs are in secondary field journals. You showed your type. Why should departments consider you when there are many candidates out there with a clean slate and higher option value in this kind of market? I am surprised that you are surprised.
A Postdoc at HRM with two pubs (not top but second top fields), applied widely even in low ranked schools (where my pubs are better than most recent APs). No interviews. My PhD is from LRM, but I didn’t expect zero interviews at all.
I understand, but my record is better than most APs at some places. And I have other papers coming up as well.
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Your best pubs are in secondary field journals. You showed your type. Why should departments consider you when there are many candidates out there with a clean slate and higher option value in this kind of market? I am surprised that you are surprised.
A Postdoc at HRM with two pubs (not top but second top fields), applied widely even in low ranked schools (where my pubs are better than most recent APs). No interviews. My PhD is from LRM, but I didn’t expect zero interviews at all.
I understand, but my record is better than most APs at some places. And I have other papers coming up as well.
Man I feel for you. Can you try to stay another year? Maybe next year will be better.
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When you say second top fields, do you mean joirnals like JHR or journals like JEDC? In the former case, I am a little surprise. In the latter case, it sounds normal.
When someone says "second top fields" without specifying it, they mean a random journal like PLoS ONE.