The Syndicate

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:28 pm New update:

I received both offers! ULL yesterday, CSUF first thing this morning Pacific time. Couldn't have worked out better.

ULL's offer is about what I expected. CSUF's is significantly better than expected.

Pretty stoked right now, to say the least. I'll be meeting with the PhD coordinator momentarily to discuss negotiation strategy. I'll have a job finalized this week or next week for sure.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:23 pm I am about to travel back to San Antonio now from my second campus visit (Fullerton, CA now; Lafayette, LA was my first a few weeks back).

For anyone who is interested in my job search progress, here is more information on that front:

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TL;DR version:

I have two universities that I'm considering at this point. I just visited CSUF (California State University Fullerton), and I visited ULL (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) a few weeks ago.

This interview was incredible. I pretty much fell in love CSUF more than I could have imagined, and the interview went I think really well. I really loved ULL as well, so either university would definitely be a great position for me, but it's now pretty clear that CSUF is my #1 and ULL is my #2.

I should hear back from both next week.


Longer version:

The reason I'm only considering CSUF and ULL at this point are due to them being the only two which I've taken beyond the phone interview phase into the campus visit phase. I had two other phone interviews: Northern Arizona University (NAU) and California State University Northridge (CSUN), but the former made me their first alternate and the latter I actually declined a campus visit because their combination of salary, resources, etc. was very undesirable. I have a few other universities I've applied to which have an even later timeline, the one I was most interested in of those being University of New Mexico (UNM), but the main reason I was interested in them was due to being able to teach Accounting Analytics, which is a class that CSUF has offered me, and the timeline is just too far off. The only way I would consider them is if both these schools fall through, which I now know isn't happening.

Somehow the timing worked out perfectly between CSUF and ULL even though I was worried and thinking it likely wouldn't. I heard from ULL yesterday telling me I will receive an offer if I'm still interested in them, so I should hear back from ULL regarding what their offer is next week. I should also hear from CSUF as to whether I get an offer and what that is as well next week too. So I'll be able to know all of the hard facts making a decision next week, theoretically, unless either school gets held up for whatever reason.

In nearly every way, CSUF surpassed my expectations: (1) more reasonable tenure requirements (both teaching and research); (2) better database availability for my research; (3) better $$ resources; (4) more ways to make $$ than the base salary (which is capped), such as summer teaching support, conference support, etc.; (5) lots of junior faculty and eligible co-authors (because so many of them are still trying to get tenure); (6) the exact classes they want me to teach (either/both Accounting Information Systems and/or Accounting Analytics, which are my most preferred areas); (7) CSUF has pretty much guaranteed that they will pay for all of our moving expenses; etc.

In all of these regards, CSUF is also more competitive and preferable to ULL.

Pretty much the only advantages ULL have are: (1) base salary will be higher and (2) cost of living in Lafayette is less insane. And it's just not enough to justify choosing it over all of the other advantages that CSUF has.

In the end, I've sort of come full circle I suppose. Before either campus visit I was preferring CSUF, but then ULL surpassed my expectations so it went above CSUF, but then now CSUF surpassed those expectations, so it went higher again.

Either way it's a win-win; I think either university would be a great position and that I'd be pretty happy at either university. Nonetheless, I'm trying to make the optimal decision for my happiness and for career opportunities especially considering how much longer I have, and under that perspective, CSUF is the clear winner. So hopefully I'll hear good news from them next week.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:44 pm

S~V~S wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2018 11:32 am

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:08 pm So today and yesterday were big days for me in terms of finding out assistant professor job market stuff.

I applied to 12 universities over the holidays. Since the Spring 2018 semester began, I have received phone interviews with 3 of those universities.

I now have campus visits/interviews with 2 of those 3, and for the third one I am a first alternate (which means I will be interviewed in the event that at least one of the candidates falls through).

I'm definitely pretty stoked about all of this, but also suddenly a lot more nervous.

Are they all snow free for the most part?

Some universities I applied to are, but some aren’t for sure. I quickly realized I had to widen my geographical range from my initial target area (Southeast, which didn’t provide nearly enough options given the current job market). But that said, I still applied to more southern universities than not, and I didn’t end up applying to any Midwest or Northeast locations.

The two campus visits I have as of now though are snow-free: California State University, Fullerton and University of Louisiana, Lafayette.

MovingPictures07 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:08 pm So today and yesterday were big days for me in terms of finding out assistant professor job market stuff.

I applied to 12 universities over the holidays. Since the Spring 2018 semester began, I have received phone interviews with 3 of those universities.

I now have campus visits/interviews with 2 of those 3, and for the third one I am a first alternate (which means I will be interviewed in the event that at least one of the candidates falls through).

I'm definitely pretty stoked about all of this, but also suddenly a lot more nervous.

Dragon D. Luffy wrote:

S~V~S wrote:Yeah, don't let work get in the way of internet games. Srsly.

I won't forget this piece of wisdom.

Bullzeye wrote:I have an interview on Monday! It's for a job I'd really like to get. Would appreciate it if everyone could cross their fingers and/or pray to their deities of choice for me

bea wrote:I HAVE GOOD NEWS!!!

(I'm sorry for the cross posting that many of you will see with this)

I got my finger printing done today!!!!!

Now all I have to do is wait two weeks for the money to send with the sub application and wait on the finger printing verification (It's going through - the only slip that could happen is if something is wrong with the actual prints - if that happens, UPS will do them again for free.)

And then I WILL HAVE MY SUBSTITUTE TEACHING LICENSE!!! (and it's good for like 6 years so I have plenty of time to find out what I need to find out to be re certified to teach and plenty of time to figure out where I would want to teach.)

I can't tell you how happy I am right now. It feels VERY good to be moving forward toward my goals.