Hello,
Indeed, rigged positions do exist. In places where it is compulsory to
advertise positions but where the person who will get the job has been
selected in advance and is known already at the time the job
advertisement appears. This does happen in several countries worldwide.
I do not agree much with "ccp4bb wars" but India has been known to hire
Indian citizens only for permanent jobs (with government funding).
Foreigners (as I was told by Indian scientists - whom I believe) are
only allowed to be employed on "soft money", i.e. fixed term fellowships
that may be renewed. This is quite different however than claiming (as
Sham does) that this is a rigged job, I personally do not know (I won't
be sitting on the panel interviewing the candidates).
But for those (worldwide) who are involved in arranging such rigged
jobs, perhaps these people should make it clear in advance to the
candidates: "Look, we are only advertising this position because it is
compulsory. Now if you want to practice giving a presentation of your
results for a future job interview and come visit us, and perhaps stay
on for a couple of days to visit the area, we'd be delighted to have you
around. But do not expect to get a job with us. Just don't repeat this
to anyone, in fact we are warning you by phone because there will be no
traces of this conversation ever having taken place". This would be more
fair to the people who apply - but this is only day dreaming I think.
F.
On 30/10/12 00:33, Phoebe A. Rice wrote:
I have no idea about Bangalore, but I know from personal experience
that already-filled job ads exist and waste everybody's time. One of
the junior faculty jobs I intereviewed for in the 90s at a prestigious
US medical school turned out to be just such a thing - before I went
people "in the know" told me which inside post-doc would get the
position, faculty turnout to my presentation was low, and even during
the visit somebody told me they thought it would be an inside deal.
And in the end, it was.
I had much better things to do with my time.
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Phoebe A. Rice
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The University of Chicago
773 834 1723; pr...@uchicago.edu <mailto:pr...@uchicago.edu>
http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/
http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp
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