[job hunt] burnout
Dec. 1st, 2009 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I've reached that point in the job application writing process where I've worked really hard on the first few that are due, and now I have no further desire to work on things, and care so little that I'm willing just to copy and paste the rest of them. Not the right strategy, but it sure is tempting.
Also, I have a stack of these due today. Son the Younger decided to spike a fever last night, just in time.
Also, I have a stack of these due today. Son the Younger decided to spike a fever last night, just in time.
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Date: 2009-12-01 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-02 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-02 03:41 pm (UTC)The current system is very inefficient, as it basically wastes a lot of productive-astronomer time every two or three years as applicants have to jump through all these hoops for various hiring committees. While I understand that it's not easy to look through 200 applications, far less time is wasted reading applications than writing them. I don't claim to have an immediate answer as to how the entire job application system could be more efficiently reformed, but the current system is only barely tenable (and not scalable).
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Date: 2009-12-01 08:06 pm (UTC)