In article <8gq6pd$hop$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
T.S. Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>says...
>>>T.S. Lim said: (and Tom answers!)
>>>Questions:
>>>1. Where did you advertise the opening? Amstat News?
>>DSI (Decision Sciences Institute) (a "business" association oriented
>towards
>>quantitative types) and AMSTAT news and 1st year, just DSI due to a screwup
>the
>>2nd year. I understand that skipping AMSTAT news would contribute to our
>>problem the 2nd year, but not the 1st.
>Skipping Amstat News is really bad. :) I'm just curious as to how your ad
>reads. If the wordings are "wrong", then perhaps many potential candidates
>won't even bother to apply.
You might even want to advertise in Institute of Mathematical
Statistics or Bayesian outlets, if you could use a more
mathematical type.
>>>2. What benefits did you offer? Was the salary competitive or lower than
>the
>>>market?
>>Competitive for business schools, I believe... which means probably better
>than
>>math depts. But in any case this wouldn't effect the number of applicants,
>I
>>would think, as the salary (as is the case for most jobs) wasn't
>advertised.
>>Obviously, a low salary would effect our ability to successfully hire
>within
>>our applicant pool.
>>>3. How was the work load? How many classes people have to teach per
>semester?
>>It's a quarter system: teaching load is 2 courses per quarter.
>So, 6 courses a year? The load in major schools is 4 courses/year.
No, it is courses per term which counts. This is strictly
equivalent.
>>>4. How picky were you in screening applicants? Did you require the
>candidates
>>>to have business knowledge (since you're in business school)? Did you ask
>>>candidates about topics that are not too "sexy" anymore?
>>Don't specifically ask for a business background, but would of course favor
>>candidates with an interest in applications over a theorist.
This might lose you quite a few applicants. There are quite
a few theoreticians in business schools, and theoreticians
are the ones who can handle unusual applied problems. In
fact, many business schools people more mathematical than
most statistics departments want. It might help if you
pointed out the contacts at both your school and at others
in the neighborhood.
>This issue is related to how you write the ad. If you say "will consider
>applicants from any area", I believe many will apply.
>>>5. What kind of special programs do you have for new recruits?
>>Mostly just mentoring by senior faculty and a little summer money at first.
>>However, once again, this kind of stuff doesn't come up until after people
>>apply and they aren't even applying!
>>>6. Did you provide any spouse job assistance program?
>>Don't know, actually... (I'm pretty new at Drexel myself). We do have the
>>advantage of being in a major metro area which tends to make this less of a
>>problem than for some universities.
>>>Personally, I find business schools to be "strange". I just don't feel
>like
>>>"at home". Plus, they do ask weird questions (this is just my opinion as a
>>>statistician who doesn't do business stats).
>>That doesn't surprise me. I had no real problems with the transition, but
>I
>>know that some folks have a strong desire to stay in math or stat depts.
This is not surprising. That is where the stimulation and
new ideas are generally found. As I said before, some
business schools have a substantial faculty who are of
this type, but still it pays to have the other contacts.
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