Any news on their AP search in American?
Mississippi State
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#hailstate
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It would take a special kind of person to want to live and work in Mississippi, and accept a paycheck from that state's public university system. A special person...like ME!!!
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There are universities in Mississippi?
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^ Have you seriously not heard of Ole Miss? There aren't great universities in Mississippi, of course, but there are several decent ones. What a weird question.
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What about their IR job?
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MSU or UM? Wiki says Ole Miss interviews already scheduled. But that seems fast. Wasn't the job posted only about a week ago?
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^ Have you seriously not heard of Ole Miss? There aren't great universities in Mississippi, of course, but there are several decent ones. What a weird question.
Someone is not aware of sarcasm....
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"MSU or UM? Wiki says Ole Miss interviews already scheduled. But that seems fast. Wasn't the job posted only about a week ago?"
It was posted by at least Feb 2.
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What? I can't believe three weeks is enough time for files to arrive and for a search committee to review the files and contact candidates.
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They are very quick, industrious, and efficient in the South. That is their culture
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The ad indicates they were to review files immediately. Fast, yes, but possible so long as there were acceptable files that were arriving.
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"Someone is not aware of sarcasm.... "
Well, to anon's credit, it is easier to identify sarcasm when it is
at least somewhat clever and funny, as opposed to being completely
predictable and boring.Posted 1 year ago # -
Three weeks from posting to fly outs is awful fast. Unless you already had a short list (or finalist) in mind before posting.
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^ Not really. It's pretty easy to eliminate about 75% of files (the hopeless ones) in an afternoon. You can get from there to a short list in 1-2 weeks. Sometimes things get slowed down at that point by approval from the deans, but at some schools the deans move more quickly, so you can start scheduling interviews right away.
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Most searches I've been on have 100 or more files come in. If you only start with 10 it's easy. Not if it's a real honest search. Of course, looking at the files after a week is a great way to keep the applicant pool small. But that's a short term gain for a long term loss. Our standard has always been a month after posting for a first cut, then another week to settle on the final 3-4 for fly outs. Our first interviews are about two months after the initial posting. Better to do things deliberately than rushed. IMO.
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^I would agree with this if the job was posted in, say, October. I'm not convinced a spring search that takes a month will yield a better pool than a spring search that takes a week or two.
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So why not post it as a 1-year replacement? If you're scrambling at the last minute in spring to replace a departing colleague, it makes little sense to rush through it and potentially get stuck with someone who either can't make tenure or won't stay. Why not just do a 1-year VAP, then run a stronger search in early fall?
A rushed search implies either desperation or simply going through the legal motions to hire a friend from the ol' boys' network. Neither seems like an optimal long-term strategy.
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^ There are plenty of good people out there in most fields, including APs looking to move. Deep pool with plenty of tenurable quality applicants, all the way through May. No need to waste time with an extra search.
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If the pool's so deep "all the way through May" why go from announcement to fly outs in less than three weeks?
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So can we get back to talking about Mississippi State, rather than Ole Miss? Any word on the search in the other university in Mississippi?
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^^Why not?
It's easy to eliminate most files very quickly, especially for R1 positions. There's rarely more than a couple dozen candidates you'd want to seriously consider. If the committee members are working quickly and on the same page, and the deans office isn't putting up roadblocks to a quick search, there's no reason you can't get some flyouts scheduled in a few weeks.
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I can believe it can take little time to get through files. But I assume you want time for files to arrive. A turnaround that fast implies they had specific person in mind all along.
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I can believe it can take little time to get through files. But I assume you want time for files to arrive. A turnaround that fast implies they had specific person in mind all along.
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^ They searched and hired in IR last year, so they probably have a pretty good idea of the lay of the land already.
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These days of budget pressures, it is in a depts interest to fill these lines before the end of the fiscal year. You never know if you would be forced to freeze it, or forfeit it altogether.
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Isn't this thread supposed to be about the MSU search?
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Yeah, what about the Miss. State IR line?
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There are universities in Mississippi?
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