A survey-based analysis of the academic job market

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作者：
Fernandes, Jason D. [2 ,3 ]
Sarabipour, Sarvenaz [4 ,5 ,6 ]
Smith, Christopher T. [7 ]
Niemi, Natalie M. [8 ,9 ]
Jadavji, Nafisa M. [3 ,10 ]
Kozik, Ariangela J. [11 ]
Holehouse, Alex S. [12 ]
Pejaver, Vikas [13 ,14 ]
Symmons, Orsolya [1 ,15 ]
Bisson Filho, Alexandre W. [16 ,17 ]
Haage, Amanda [18 ]
机构：
[1] Max Planck Inst Biol Ageing, Cologne, Germany
[2] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Biomol Engn, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[3] eLife Community Ambassadors Programme, Santa Cruz, CA USA
[4] Johns Hopkins Univ, Inst Computat Med, Baltimore, MD USA
[5] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Biomed Engn, Baltimore, MD USA
[6] eLife Early Career Advisory Grp, Baltimore, MD USA
[7] North Carolina State Univ, Grad Sch, Off Postdoctoral Affairs, Raleigh, NC USA
[8] Morgridge Inst Res, Madison, WI USA
[9] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Biochem, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53705 USA
[10] Midwestern Univ, Dept Biomed Sci, Glendale, AZ USA
[11] Univ Michigan, Dept Internal Med, Div Pulm & Crit Care Med, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[12] Washington Univ, Sch Med, Dept Biochem & Mol Biophys, St Louis, MO 63110 USA
[13] Univ Washington, Dept Biomed Informat & Med Educ, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[14] Univ Washington, eSci Inst, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[15] Univ Penn, Dept Bioengn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[16] Brandeis Univ, Dept Biol, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[17] Brandeis Univ, Rosenstiel Basic Med Sci Res Ctr, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[18] Univ North Dakota, Dept Biomed Sci, Grand Forks, ND 58202 USA
来源：
ELIFE | 2020年 / 9卷
关键词：
GENDER BIAS; STUDENT; IMPACT;
D O I：
10.7554/eLife.54097
中图分类号：
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Many postdoctoral researchers apply for faculty positions knowing relatively little about the hiring process or what is needed to secure a job offer. To address this lack of knowledge about the hiring process we conducted a survey of applicants for faculty positions: the survey ran between May 2018 and May 2019, and received 317 responses. We analyzed the responses to explore the interplay between various scholarly metrics and hiring outcomes. We concluded that, above a certain threshold, the benchmarks traditionally used to measure research success - including funding, number of publications or journals published in - were unable to completely differentiate applicants with and without job offers. Respondents also reported that the hiring process was unnecessarily stressful, time-consuming, and lacking in feedback, irrespective of outcome. Our findings suggest that there is considerable scope to improve the transparency of the hiring process.
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