tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post111336399710449330..comments2024-02-07T03:12:59.031-05:00Comments on Blogenspiel: Unaccountably depressedAnother Damned Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1113488385559932602005-04-14T10:19:00.000-04:002005-04-14T10:19:00.000-04:00It always feels bad to be rejected, but it really ...It always feels bad to be rejected, but it really does sound like they wanted an Americanist. The fact that you're a medievalist is hardly a character flaw, so this seems to be a situation of what they were looking for rather than what you failed to do.<BR/><BR/>Just yesterday a colleague told me that she'd read a study that concluded that women tend to credit good news to good luck and bad news to personal failure, whereas men tend to credit good news to their own abilities and bad news to bad luck. Interesting.What Now?https://www.blogger.com/profile/04017629066466055668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1113400836579345572005-04-13T10:00:00.000-04:002005-04-13T10:00:00.000-04:00As JD and NewK said -- rejection is awful. But ac...As JD and NewK said -- rejection is awful. But acceptance by these people sounds worse than rejection, frankly. It has all the makings of a job from hell.meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04388701045008533927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1113389275735535022005-04-13T06:47:00.000-04:002005-04-13T06:47:00.000-04:00(the cards WERE stacked against you in terms of fi...(the cards WERE stacked against you in terms of fit - sorry, the typo'ed "weren" sounds kind of ambiguous!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1113389206579666102005-04-13T06:46:00.000-04:002005-04-13T06:46:00.000-04:00I'm sorry you didn't get the job! Except that it s...I'm sorry you didn't get the job! Except that it sounds like it wouldn't have been that great a fit for you, so you might not have enjoyed it very much, but it still sucks not to get things. I wouldn't worry about being a bad teacher/interviewee, though; from what you've said, their interview process was really lame, and whatever reasons they brought you in in the first place, it sounds like the cards weren stacked against you in terms of fit, that they were really looking for an Americanist. (I got brought on campus once for a primarily World History position based on - I imagine - having TAed for World in grad school something like 7 years earlier. I think they were going on the fact that my program has a good reputation for a World History emphasis, but boy! the interview was pretty sad because I just really wasn't what they were looking for.) Also, I suspect some folks/depts would interpret the question about plans for expansion as criticism (despite their own utterly unrealistic expectations for what one person in one position can do). Or, yes, they may have brought you in to make up numbers (I had a friend who is convinced she got on-campus once because the school had to include a woman in the final group - they were so utterly uninterested in her once she got there). The thing is, you can never know why you don't get something, but I'd be willing to bet that in this case it's nothing to do with your abilities.<BR/><BR/>Crossing my fingers for the other positions!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1113388587279394032005-04-13T06:36:00.000-04:002005-04-13T06:36:00.000-04:00One thing to remember: interviewing success is not...One thing to remember: interviewing success is not an absolute achievement, but a relative one. You may have struggled with your "difficult student" answer, but it could still have been three times as good as the answer given by the other candidates, who probably have less classroom experience and self-reflection than you (or maybe it only needed to be ten percent better, whatever). <BR/><BR/>Conversely, you can give a great interview, and still lose out to someone whose credentials are a better fit (only slightly, obviously, or you wouldn't both be in the interview stage), or who happened to give a world-class interview that day.<BR/><BR/>I don't know about your field, but late-deadline jobs do exist, particularly of the one-year variety. The ones that arise when someone gets hired away by a better school...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com