jobhunt update
Oct. 18th, 2003 01:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quietann"The waiting is the hardest part." (hey, at least it's a Tom Petty song virus...)
I had a very good interview at HSPH with a nutrition professor on Tuesday. The job was listed as part-time, but it's now a full-time position. She basically needs a colleague -- someone to do data management, analysis, and writing while she gets grants and works on starting HSPH's new Ph.D. program in Public Health Nutrition.
The only place I tripped up was when they asked me about salary. I wasn't really expecting the question in a first interview, and knew the salary range for the job. I asked for something on the lower end, but more than I was making when I quit my last professional position in 2000. But I could have asked for more. argh. (The salary range is 42 to 68K and I asked for "high 40s" -- which is actually pretty respectable for a first job.)
There's also the whole issue of the informal network at HSPH. I tried to direct this woman to people who will give me good references -- but god help me if she goes to any of the theoretically inclined biostat professors. A friend recently asked me whether I'd consider anything they'd done "actionable". I have to say, no. I *barely* graduated from HSPH, and then only because the department chair pulled some strings so I could substitute some applied courses for theoretical ones. This is the truth, whatever else might be true about me.
As for the other job -- with the Division of Preventive Medicine at BWH -- they are still considering me.
No particularly interesting leads, otherwise. But two interviews resulting in two "you're a very strong candidate!" is nothing to sneeze at.
I had a very good interview at HSPH with a nutrition professor on Tuesday. The job was listed as part-time, but it's now a full-time position. She basically needs a colleague -- someone to do data management, analysis, and writing while she gets grants and works on starting HSPH's new Ph.D. program in Public Health Nutrition.
The only place I tripped up was when they asked me about salary. I wasn't really expecting the question in a first interview, and knew the salary range for the job. I asked for something on the lower end, but more than I was making when I quit my last professional position in 2000. But I could have asked for more. argh. (The salary range is 42 to 68K and I asked for "high 40s" -- which is actually pretty respectable for a first job.)
There's also the whole issue of the informal network at HSPH. I tried to direct this woman to people who will give me good references -- but god help me if she goes to any of the theoretically inclined biostat professors. A friend recently asked me whether I'd consider anything they'd done "actionable". I have to say, no. I *barely* graduated from HSPH, and then only because the department chair pulled some strings so I could substitute some applied courses for theoretical ones. This is the truth, whatever else might be true about me.
As for the other job -- with the Division of Preventive Medicine at BWH -- they are still considering me.
No particularly interesting leads, otherwise. But two interviews resulting in two "you're a very strong candidate!" is nothing to sneeze at.
