Open thread on hiring timelines

In our job-market discussion thread, Bill Vanderburgh (CSU San Bernardino) chimed in to clear up some confusion/misinformation about the search he is chairing at his institution:

We have barely begun evaluating candidates. The email that candidates received was automated. It is meant to indicate that they have advanced from "applied" to "under consideration". I didn't even realize the system would be sending those notices, or I would have tried to change the wording. The department has a meeting scheduled for mid-November to begin building our list for preliminary interviews by Zoom, and we hope to schedule those to take place in the second week of December.

Some job candidates in the thread appreciated, with one asking:

It would be great if other chairs or members of search committees would share similar timelines of their searches, which may as well be public but typically aren't, either in this thread or elsewhere. Is there a way you (Marcus Arvan) might facilitate this, for those search committee chairs or members who are able and willing to share such information?

I think this is a great idea, and so I hereby open this thread for any members of search committees who are able and willing to disclose their timeline (e.g. for reviewing applicants, holding first-round interviews, on-campus visits, etc.). My experience is that many committees need to give administrators rough timelines for all of the above anyway, so hopefully some search committees will be willing to weigh in!

Comments

[Mike Titelbaum]

We have two tenure-track jobs advertised at UW-Madison. Both had a due date for applications of Nov 1. We plan to do Zoom interviews during December, then flyouts in late January/early Feb. I wish I could tell you exactly when interviewees will be notified, but that depends on how fast our administrators process the applications, how quickly the committees read them, when the department approves the interviewee list, etc. So unfortunately I don’t have information on that front.

[Tina Rulli]

We are doing a tenure-track search at UC Davis in value theory. Applications were due October 18, and we plan to do Zoom interviews the first week of December (pending approval from the Dean’s Office). We plan to schedule on campus visits in January and February.

[Eric Hagedorn]

St. Norbert College's search in Phil. Mind has a closing date of Nov. 15. We hope to have first round Zoom interviews either the week before Christmas or perhaps the first week of January, with campus visits tentatively scheduled for the beginning of February.

[searchcommitteemember]

It might be a good idea in the future to pin this to the sidebar with the reporting thread. It got buried quickly!

[Marcus Arvan]

Done!