136 job seekers were kind enough to fill out my survey on your job
search in 2013-2014.
A more thorough analysis will be hopefully published in consort with
other data about jobs etc I have collected since 2001 or 2002 (can't
recall the start date right now!). I will state up front though that
applicants with the most applications did not necessarily have the
most interviews. I'm not sure if this holds across the board as a
trend, but 100-200 applications is a lot to send out while tailoring
an application for each vacancy.
So, here it is. Of the 136 respondents
34.6% applied for 1-5 academic jobs
20.6% applied for 5-10 academic jobs
21.3% applied for 11-20 academic jobs
10.3% applied for 21-30 academic jobs
6.6% applied for 31-40 academic jobs
3.7% applied for 41-50 academic jobs
0.7% applied for 51-60 academic jobs
none applied for 61-91 academic jobs
2.2% applied for 100-200 academic jobs.
Then, of the 136 respondents...
(57.4% got at least one phone interview)
42.6% had no phone interviews
25%% had only one phone interview
13.2% had two phone interviews
5.9% had three phone interviews
5.9% had four phone interviews
3.7% had five phone interviews
0.7% had seven phone interviews
0.7% had ten phone interviews
0.7% had thirteen phone interviews
Campus interviews
(58.8% got at least one campus interview)
zero = 41.2%
one = 33.8%
two = 16.9%
three = 4.4%
four = 0
five = 0.7%
six = 0
seven = 0
eight = 0.7%
nine = 0.7%
ten = 0
eleven = 0
twelve = 0.7%
Job offers
(29.4% got at least one offer).
zero = 67.6%
one = 24.3%
two = 4.4%
three = 0
four = 0.7%
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