The Man with No Time

Time for another quick job-hunting update. After a fallow period for likely looking postdocs and non-academic jobs, there have been several all at once in the last couple of months.  I’ve applied to three separate jobs; two are academic, and one is an outreach job that I was actually alerted to by one of my friends.

I’m feeling very silly today. In my ongoing quest for a job post-PhD I had my eye on a position at Warwick. It wasn’t strictly in my area, but was related enough that I was considering applying. It was attractive; an interesting sounding project, a University and department that I know already, and positions of either 3 or 5(!) years available. Sadly I really messed up. Somehow I’d put the closing date in my calendar as Monday 11 th of February, but when I rechecked today it was Monday 4 th of February. So that one’s down the pan now. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I’m having a hard enough time finding interesting postdoc positions in the UK without throwing them away like that. Pretty much how I fell right now. Stupid idiot! (Credit: knowyoutmeme.com)

Today I received the long-awaited email from the department at Oxford that I recently interviewed for. Sadly I have not been offered the position. I can’t say that I’m too surprised given what I thought immediately following the interview, but it’s still a bit disappointing. Ah well, onwards and upwards. I emailed the professor offering the postdoc to ask for some feedback on my interview, and she’s given me some helpful pointers. Now I just need to find some more UK-based postdocs  that look interesting enough to apply for.