Timeline for What counts as an 'invited' talk?
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| Oct 21, 2010 at 19:29 | comment | added | Colin Reid | I'd have said that any serious researcher, regardless of where they are career-wise, should be trying to give talks at many different institutions in order to disseminate their ideas. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 12:59 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Oct 15, 2010 at 2:22 | comment | added | sleepless in beantown | Pete, let's just say ... that too many job talks at too many differing (in strengths) institutions over too many years can look like an unfocused applicant who hasn't decided what they really want to do, rather than a strong applicant who has a plethora of job offers. Scattershot applications, like resumes and cover-letters that are not fine-tuned or tweaked for a particular job offer, can be viewed negatively, even if they ought not to be perceived in that manner. | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 2:09 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | I'm not sure I believe that too many talks will look bad on your job application. (I do agree that it's tedious to write out a complete list of talks and makes for a much lengthier CV that except in certain specific circumstances -- tenure & promotion, grant and prize applications -- few will read.) In particular it is usually not clear which talks are "job talks", and as a sometime hirer I think it would be quite inappropriate to view the candidate negatively based upon assumptions like this. (Also, I would tend to think that someone with a lot of job talks was strong...) | |
| Oct 15, 2010 at 1:39 | history | edited | sleepless in beantown | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
removed redundant text: oops copied the bottom to the top,
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| Oct 15, 2010 at 0:35 | history | answered | sleepless in beantown | CC BY-SA 2.5 |