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Post by tuttifrutti on Sept 16, 2009 18:50:50 GMT -5
When do you contact departments you are applying to because of changes/updates in your CV?
Im sure that having a publication go from revise and resubmit would be one such situation, but what about the less clear instances?
Would you contact deparments if the change is one where a paper went from "accepted pending minor modifications" to "forthcoming?" Or an unpublished manuscript was submitted for review?
Where do you draw the line? What changes are significant enough to contact the places you've applied to and what changes aren't?
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Post by ace on Sept 16, 2009 20:01:06 GMT -5
I've been told to only contact committees if you have an acceptance or a conditional acceptance. Other "updates", including an R&R really don't say much at all, given that 50% of R&Rs at top journals are rejected; you definitely shouldn't bother them to say you submitted a paper.
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Post by tuttifrutti on Sept 16, 2009 20:03:29 GMT -5
What about from conditional acceptance to acceptance?
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Post by damastes on Sept 16, 2009 20:19:16 GMT -5
What about from conditional acceptance to acceptance? In some places, it amounts to the administrative assistant swapping out a c.v., so it might be worth it. I might email that person and say 'I've got an important update on a publication. Would it be possible to update my c.v. on file?' Is there a line where/when updates may come across as annoying? That would be what I would want to avoid. |
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Post by anon on Sept 16, 2009 23:38:23 GMT -5
I would say to contact departments only when the journal editorial board made some kind of decision. So a move from "under review" to R&R is noteworthy, especially if it is a top journal. In any case, letting departments know in this case certainly cannot hurt. The transition from a working paper to"under review" seems much less noteworthy to me, but then again, maybe there is some reason to let places know...
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Post by tnrd on Sept 29, 2009 23:52:53 GMT -5
As noted above, this type of updating is usually done by an administrative assistant. I would send a short note saying that there has been a change in your CV and that you request that the new updated version - of which you are attaching a copy - be added to your file. You could add a date to the CV or say "updated" somewhere on it to make sure committee members look at that one and not the old one if they find two in your folder.
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Post by anonymous on Sept 30, 2009 8:45:00 GMT -5
At this point in the hiring process, this probably is handled by a department secretary. If you send in updates later in the Fall, don't be too surprised if you receive an email directly from the search committee chair in response. This happened to me last year, and it was how I found out a couple of the searches I was applying for had closed (at least to people they had not already interviewed). That's not a bad thing, necessarily, but probably precludes adding minor updates to the CV.
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