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Heard back from Eastern Colorado VA this week, they sent an email out on Tuesday.
2015-2016 Post-Doc Thread
Heard back from Eastern Colorado VA this week, they sent an email out on Tuesday.
Still waiting to hear from DC VAMC Trauma track. Anyone else?
Thanks! Any chance you've heard already? I'm still waiting....and praying lol
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No! I haven't, which is making me very sad. It's Friday, and haven't heard from them so I'm assuming this means I may have been rejected?
I'm in the same boat, so I'm hoping they just haven't started or finished making calls.....fingers still crossed for both of us!
Anyone heard from Hines VA, Trauma track?
I heard from someone that they have not started making calls yet, so maybe that should ease our worries. 🙂
I heard from San Diego yesterday. They mentioned that they were trying to get to everyone as fast as they could, so it might be that they haven't reached everyone yet.
Hopefully! What tracks did you apply for?
You got an interview? Congrats! What track did you hear from?
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Thanks! I'll pm you.
One of my friends heard from Primary Care and another from the two-year Psychotherapy program, all at different times this week. Looks like the track faculty are inviting as they review apps.
Does anyone know how many applicants post-doc sites invite for interviews? Do they invite less applicants than internship training directors?
I'm not sure if I'm at liberty to say the actual number, but I can say my site invites less people for post doc than for internship.
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Based on the info that's published in the APPIC directory, a lot fewer people apply and are interviewed for postdocs than for internships. I'm sure it varies widely, and it depends on the number of slots at a particular site, but it appears that many sites invite approximately 20 people for interviews.
My experience has been 2-4 applicants per position, with the mode being 2 or 3.
I find it very hard to believe that any post-doctoral position would generate 20 interviews per single position. Many post-doctoral positions do not ever receive 20 applications.
We just received 34 applications for a single position. We interviewed 16.
Do you think there is a difference in number of applications/interviewees based on whether it's a clinical or research focused postdoc? Or what kind of site/focus it is? I'm imagining that more general clinical postdocs might get a lot of applications compared to a research postdoc, which often seem to be pretty specific.
It's going to vary wildly depending on the site, but even when I was at more research heavy places, we still got at least 20 applications for each spot we had open.
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Now that is just a lot of wasted time (for both the applicants and for the faculty).
Meh, we cut more than half of the stack off the top pretty easily. We'd be very happy with any on our top 10, and fairly happy with the other 6. I'd rather have >30 applications for that position than <20 as a faculty member, no question.
A lot of those interviews are at ins so its not like all of them travel to each site.
Added a few more updates -- more to come. It's been a crazy week. When I get some downtime I'll add the rest and clean it up a bit. Thanks!
Why interview so many??? Even if you spent 2.5 hours/applicant during an interview with all said and done (which seems light), that's a full week's time right there!!!
We interview everyone in our upper tiers, just the way that it works. And, each interview is an hour in length, fairly standard. Few faculty present during each interview, split between several faculty, not bad at all.
Would you mind saying which track?
How many interviews are typically needed to be confident in getting an offer?
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I would be curious to know this too.
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I would love to know this, but not sure that there is an answer. I'm sure it's highly variable, given that so many factors are involved.
I applied to a total of 5 sites. I have interviewed at Boston VA and have two interviews for Palo Alto VA Feb 12th. Has anyone heard back from Long Beach VA or West LA VA? Has anyone attempted to contact any of your sites if you have not heard back re: an interview?
I haven't, and don't think that I will, as I heard that some of them don't respond at all. I will just assume that it's a rejection by middle of February, I think.
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I am also still waiting to hear anything from Baltimore VA Neuro. I'm also waiting on VA Neuro tracks for St. Louis and Cleveland if anyone has heard from those.
I don't think there's any way of knowing. I had four interviews and got one offer (from my top choice, though!)
Has anyone heard from NJ VA-- health or Manhattan VA-- health?
Just heard from Milwaukee VA! Got an email from the current post doc on the track I applied to. Hopefully all the tracks will send out invites soon!
Congratulations! Would you mind telling us what track that was for?
I'm still waiting on Cleveland Clinic neuro.
Updated! Sorry for the delay. Will be back around Tuesday to do more updates. Thanks !
Does anyone know anything about the quality of neuropsych training at Cleveland Clinic?
They sent out notifications about 2 weeks ago. I received mine via mass email.
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