rejectedndejected Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 2 hours ago, kenshiro said: I think any answer to that question can only be speculative. Every hiring manager I've had in the last ten years has done some basic web searching for me, and the competition for RS PhD spots is much fiercer than for most job openings. Why take the risk? Unless the whole adcom are luddites, odds are someone's going to have a rummage. So how do you purge your internet presence? Delete accounts? Or just delete any polarizing posts or anything suggestive of politics/religion?
kenshiro Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 5 hours ago, rejectedndejected said: So how do you purge your internet presence? Delete accounts? Or just delete any polarizing posts or anything suggestive of politics/religion? Depends what sorts of accounts you have, I suppose, and how they would be identified with you. Some services (e.g. FB) allow you to change your name, others (e.g. Insta, Twitter) allow you to make your account private, with varying degrees of success. Some (e.g. Reddit) don't have tools like that but have third-party tools that allow you to scrub everything you've ever written. But I doubt anyone is going to make more than a cursory effort to find you online, so completely eradicating yourself online is probably overkill. In any case, it's a bit late for this cycle.
bigsh Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 Hard to imagine not getting googled applying for jobs or schools nowadays. My top Google result is a comedically bad newspaper article about me. There's not any winning with stuff like that. Unless we all could go back in time and remove our digital footprint, there's probably something out there people could find if they look hard enough. And this is a thing now, even in undergrad admissions in many places.
JDD Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 This is a nit picky question: is it more likely that they check your social media before or after an interview? As in, does the social media screening process affect your ability to get an interview? Or would it come after the interview? I ask because, with such a common name, I don’t know how they would determine which social profile is mine without first seeing me in person/on skype.
kenshiro Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 9 minutes ago, JDD said: This is a nit picky question: is it more likely that they check your social media before or after an interview? As in, does the social media screening process affect your ability to get an interview? Or would it come after the interview? I ask because, with such a common name, I don’t know how they would determine which social profile is mine without first seeing me in person/on skype. Why not both?
rejectedndejected Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 5 hours ago, kenshiro said: Why not both? The middle name in conjunction with location is the killer.
chyro Posted January 24, 2020 Posted January 24, 2020 @rejectedndejected et al, Just a point of general strategy, but you could turn the social media liability into an asset. Go back and mark all Facebook posts 'friends only' (there's a process that'll do this en masse). Then update your profile pic, if necessary, to something professional looking. Go back through your timeline and make some select posts 'public' that authentically present you, your avocational interests, and your research interests in such a way that you would like your departments to see. I'm unfamiliar with other platforms--such as Twitter--but if they have a similar 'turn all posts private' option I'd take the same approach with that. This is all basically a way of getting a quasi-interview 'for free' by putting your best foot forward digitally.
NTNerd Posted January 25, 2020 Posted January 25, 2020 to anyone who was worried about that skype interview posting for Duke GPR: an inside source has confirmed that the GPR has not sent out any interview invitations yet. kenshiro 1
kenshiro Posted January 25, 2020 Posted January 25, 2020 28 minutes ago, NTGal said: to anyone who was worried about that skype interview posting for Duke GPR: an inside source has confirmed that the GPR has not sent out any interview invitations yet. You just made my evening. NTNerd and duckie0817 2
xypathos Posted January 25, 2020 Posted January 25, 2020 90% of social media content is going to be fine. If you're doing soft drugs in one, obnoxiously drunk, etc - that might rub someone the wrong way but those kind of pictures should be set to private/friends only anyway. The stuff that is going to get you in legitimate trouble is racism, sexism, etc. If you're someone heavily involved in social justice and advocacy, the academy tends to skew left but that's not a gamble I'd count on, esp. not in religious studies. 9/11 jokes and conspiracy theories will get you in trouble, trust me. 18 hours ago, NTGal said: to anyone who was worried about that skype interview posting for Duke GPR: an inside source has confirmed that the GPR has not sent out any interview invitations yet. Trolls never get tired.
duckie0817 Posted January 26, 2020 Posted January 26, 2020 Is anyone claiming the UChicago Div School interview?
xypathos Posted January 27, 2020 Posted January 27, 2020 22 hours ago, saab said: Is anyone claiming the UChicago Div School interview? Chicago doesn't interview. I suspect this is a troll or someone misunderstanding what the "interview" is. A faculty member can reach out if they need to clarify matters in someone's application, inorder to eliminate a candidate, but they're required to denote that it's not an interview. As a policy the University of Chicago strongly discourages interviews. The dean of the div school is adamantly opposed to interviews. They have strict policies in place to make sure even their internal applicants are kept aloof. I know for a fact that if a faculty member were interviewing candidates against a direct order from the dean, they'd rake them through the coals.
rejectedndejected Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 It looks like some ND applicants got interview invites today. Does anyone know if they have all gone out? Or should we still be holding our breath for certain areas of emphasis?
Taorluath34 Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 Congratulations to the Yale Religious Studies poster on an interview. If you claim it, which subfield did you apply for?
soitgoes Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 4 hours ago, Taorluath34 said: Congratulations to the Yale Religious Studies poster on an interview. If you claim it, which subfield did you apply for? 'Twas me, and thank you, but I continue to hold my breath. I applied for Islamic Studies. Do not worry (too much) if you have not yet been contacted. From what I have gathered from their website, initially each subfield works independently. Wishing you all the best. Taorluath34 1
Taorluath34 Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 7 minutes ago, soitgoes said: 'Twas me, and thank you, but I continue to hold my breath. I applied for Islamic Studies. Do not worry (too much) if you have not yet been contacted. From what I have gathered from their website, initially each subfield works independently. Wishing you all the best. Way to go! I wish you all the best too!
Dewey Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 Received an interview request yesterday for Yale, PhD in Religious Ethics. This is my second time applying. duckie0817 and Taorluath34 2
NTNerd Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 congratulations to the person who posted an interview from Duke today. If you claim it, what is your subfield?
kenshiro Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, NTGal said: congratulations to the person who posted an interview from Duke today. If you claim it, what is your subfield? Is it legit this time? duckie0817 1
NTNerd Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, kenshiro said: Is it legit this time? hahaha great question. I assumed that it's legit because the timing is at least plausible. I imagine GPR is sending out their invitations this week and/or next.
foucaultsturtleneck Posted January 28, 2020 Posted January 28, 2020 I also received an interview for Duke GPR (Religion & Modernity subfield). Does anyone know what this means? Is this an interview-interview, or more of an open house? Good luck to everyone else
kenshiro Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 20 minutes ago, foucaultsturtleneck said: I also received an interview for Duke GPR (Religion & Modernity subfield). Does anyone know what this means? Is this an interview-interview, or more of an open house? Good luck to everyone else It's tacitly understood that Duke GPR interviews are 'non-competitive' and represent a soft acceptance. In other words, don't come off as a sociopath and you're in. Congrats! Commiserations to the rest of us who will now have to hope for waitlist!
duckie0817 Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 What’s the deal with the Yale interviews? The person I know who got in last year wasn’t interviewed...
xypathos Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 1 hour ago, saab said: What’s the deal with the Yale interviews? The person I know who got in last year wasn’t interviewed... Yale also doesn’t interview.
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