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Cover letters for tenure-track jobs on mathjobs
I disagree strongly with Piotr Hajlasz's answer. I've been on a zillion searches for my US-based university.
At a liberal arts college, the cover letter is extremely important
The cover letter is ...
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Cover letters for tenure-track jobs on mathjobs
I am writing from a perspective of someone working at a PhD granting mathematics department in the US ranked as one of the top 50$\pm\varepsilon$ in research and graduate education, and my comments ...
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What will stand in for the JMM Employment Center this year?
My university hired during the fall of 2020 and we did Zoom interviews instead of the Employment Center at the JMM. That seems to have become standard, to get down to the short-list of candidates who ...
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Question on "publication List" for applying to post-doctoral jobs
You should put the preprints on arxiv. This allows for other researchers to find your work, and to cite it.
In extreme cases, it can take 2-3 years to get a a referee report after submission, and then ...
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