Chances to get a top university professorship & psychologists in business divisions

[LWNagel]

I am talking Harvard, Chicago, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, etc. this is assuming the applicant has a top PhD and good research.

Additionally, and I might need to start a new thread for this – does anybody have any experience about transferring from a psychology division to a business division question, as a faculty member? Is it easier to just start in business? Do you need business experience first, even if you have work-oriented research?

[lewin]

In social psych there is increasing overlap with OB and marketing departments. I have a friend who was recently hired at a top business school after finishing their PhD in a pretty good social program. But this person has an astounding CV, like it brings tears to my eyes. I also know assistant professors who have switched from psych departments to business departments. So it's possible, though these people were all in the top 1% of their field at their level so it's probably not easy. None of them had business experience.

[tupacodaman]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-pushes-for-more-scientists-but-the-jobs-arent-there/2012/07/07/gJQAZJpQUW_story.html

and this article is talking about the sciences in general... I'm guessing psych is even worse. for a professor job at the top schools, I'd say a 1-5% chance, maybe even lower

[lewin]

^^ Oh yes, sorry. I was assuming that the OP meant the chance of getting a job at a business school relative to a psych department. You're right in that the job market for professors is shite all over.