How would you react?
When I applied for a job at Hiram College, I responded to the ad pictured below. Notice it says "2015," which was the year I was completing my dissertation. I applied for this job in the spring of 2015. Was called to campus, interviewed, and then went home. And then silence. Finally, after a couple of weeks, Jodi Hupp, the search chair called me to tell me they had good news and bad news. The bad news was that Hiram could not afford to hire me on a tenure-track line. The good news was that they still wanted me full-time and offered me a full-time visiting assistant professorship. I accepted it and moved to Hiram. As a VAP, at the end of 3 years, you are either converted over to a full-time annual job or you are let go. After two and a half years, my job role was rewritten into a much larger role. Compare the top job ad to below. Usually, when a job posting is written with so many responsibilities, an outsider can gather that the posting is meant for someone internal. T...