Life update

[livredor]

I had a very long and tiring week last week, but at the end of it my experiment didn't yield any useful data, bah. The weekend was fairly quiet; I spent Friday sending out job applications and not doing as much tidying as I'd intended, and the guests I'd invited for Friday night couldn't make it. Saturday I gave the sermon and led the Torah

Comments

[blue_mai]

sorry for focussing on one thing - but prod the jobs you haven't heard back from to get definite no or still pending. they should at least be able to tell you if they've made a shortlist/interview list yet or not

[purplecthulhu]

IAWTC - I spent too much time of my early postdoc days waiting for answers that never came before prodding.

And there's no harm in applying a second time to the ones that were re-advertised, especially if you can spruce up your application.

[friend_of_tofu]

Thank you! I'm touched by your recommendation and sorry I was away for a bit and so less able to respond to useful comments, such as yours

[pointilliste]

Hi. I've been out of LJ reading habits due to being incredibly busy, but just stopped in and read of your job hunting. I wanted to offer my sympathies with the whole wrangle, it's pretty arduous sometimes isn't it? And isn't that the way - an offer comes for something that isn't your first choice (as the Teeside one sounds, from my reading of your journal) while you're being strung along waiting for the Dream Job!

Good luck with whatever you decide.

[doseybat]

In your experience, how often do biology junior lecturer type jobs come up in south of the UK, and are they all on jobs.ac.uk? I am wondering about heading in a similar direction, perhaps.

[livredor]

Ooh, interesting, it'd be fun if we ended up moving in the same direction; we've had a lot of the same problems with post-docs. Most lecturer type jobs don't make it to jobs.ac.uk; one did, and that's how I knew that this kind of job exists, but generally it's not considered an "academic" job in quite the same way as your standard post-doc, and a lot of the ex-polys that take teaching seriously are a bit out of the mainstream academic loop. What I've been doing is going through this list on Wiki (as an aside, it's fascinating which completely obscure universities you've never heard of are twice the size of Cambridge!) and looking at the job vacancies page for each one. In most cases it's a single click from the homepage.

[livredor]

Sorry, I forgot to answer your actual question! By means of going directly to the university job vacancy pages, I'm finding about two or three posts a month that I'm at least vaguely qualified for. Because they're new universities there's a lot of nutrition studies and food science, physiology and sports science, and not so much molecular. But if you're trying to teach biology at all you need someone who knows the molecular side.

[doseybat]

Thank you, thats useful.