• trolske@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    I assume that’s for assistant professor and higher, right? Because I’ve never encountered a postdoc application where you would have needed the long essay, just one page cover letter, CV, letters of recommendation, and diplomas.

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      6 days ago

      At postdoc levels I was applying for grants, they could be even longer… got a position through one.

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        6 days ago

        Well ok, if you count a research plan for a grant , I agree.
        But I would see a grant application as separate from the job application, even though jobs then can be conditional on the grant.
        I’ve at least never encountered an academic job, where there was only a grant application, and not also the standard job application process.

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          I got a professor interested in me (through being second place in an interview, fml), he had no funding for me, so there was no job, only a grant application. (Actually the grant applications and only one went through)