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C

Hi,

I am aiming to have my thesis submitted by the end of this September. I started looking into postdocs recently and came across one that suited my skills and interests very well. As part of the application process 3 papers were required to be submitted. I emailed about this beforehand as to meet that requirement one paper would be at draft stage, I was advised that would be okay. The deadline for submission was 10 days ago and I haven't heard anything. As this is the first postdoc application I don't know what to expect. For those who have had experiences of applying for and securing these roles what have you encountered in respect of timescales?

I will also add that due to having encountered bullying in the first year of my PhD, and the University I am at not resolving issues or supporting me in any way, I have had to work very independently on my PhD with a little external support.

T

Hi Cat123

You will probably hear soon. It's still not too late to rule out interview - sometimes they take a while to shortlist and I think things might be slower due to lockdown. Good luck!

Ps. I am curious about the stipulation for 3 papers. I have never seen this quantified before. Was it an actual requirement?

C

For this particular university it was the only Postdoc advertised that required papers to be submitted as part of the application, others just required that the CV contained a list of publications. I have only been looking for a few months but I have not seen this on any other advert I have looked at. This was listed as a compulsory requirement for the application process for this particular post. This post is directly relevant to my PhD research and the first I have seen which has been.

C

I also had to provide an academic CV and 1 page statement of interest, which from research online is a bit different to a cover letter. All in all seems the bar was set high at the application stage for this one.

E

Thanks for sharing. Hope you hear soon.

T

Hi Cat

It does sound like the bar is quite high for that one. I hope you hear back from them soon. Good luck!

Tudor

B

Anecdotally I've been hearing at my university, that application levels for the small number of postdocs that can be advertised during a hiring freeze are very high and that the HR side is very slow as their systems don't work too well away from the university network. I'd give it a month to 6 weeks before writing things off at the moment.

P

Quote From bewildered:
Anecdotally I've been hearing at my university, that application levels for the small number of postdocs that can be advertised during a hiring freeze are very high and that the HR side is very slow as their systems don't work too well away from the university network. I'd give it a month to 6 weeks before writing things off at the moment.


This doesn't surprise me at all.
Unfortunately, I think the next few years are going to be particularly brutal for all of academia.

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