As a budding researcher trying to establish a career in academics, I am curious to know about the recruitment process in universities so that I can prepare accordingly.
How much do the senior academics contribute to the recruitment of faculty in their departments? Do they have any say in the recruitment process? Or, they just interview whoever the recruitment team selects?
More often than not, the recruitment teams consist of people with management degrees who have no knowledge of technical subjects to which they recruit. How do senior faculty members ensure that they get quality members into their group?
If the initial selection is solely done by the recruitment team, how does it judge without having technical knowledge? Is quantity, number of papers published, the sole criterion on which a candidate is selected?
If there is any other information that might help me and others like me please post.
Interesting question..... I am a nurse and was on Faculty at Boston University in an earlier part of my career.... and as a junior faculty, I was selected to be the Chair of the Search Committee for a new senior faculty position - yes, surprising but I had more clinical experience than most of the Senior Faculty and they wanted to start balancing the clinical and research aspects of the entire faculty..... It sounds like you may be in more of a technical field versus a clinical one, but still think the recruitment process may have similarities.... We had identified a need in the faculty for a gerontology specialist.... so we contacted all those sources in the New England area and then moved to national sources.....but I initially started by interviewing the current faculty in terms of what they felt the program ( Graduate Psychiatric Nursing) needed..... and then contacted folks whom we thought could provide us with good candidates..... For us due to our clinical concerns we were looking more for someone who could both handle clinical courses as well as contribute to the research components of the position....Yes, publications were important as well as the ability to bring in Grant Money.. But after looking at all the usual pieces of recruitment.... for us it was important that the personality of the candidate fit with the culture of our university which may be the piece that others don't always talk about... but for me that was the Key element of finding & selecting a faculty person who would fit in while adding breadth to our faculty..... Good Luck!
Thank you Patricia, for taking your time in posting an answer and sharing your experience.
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