There is not a lot for me to report from the job front. I sent off the application materials to the local technical college with the full time position. I immediately got the auto-response saying that they'd received my e-mail, so at least I didn't have to sit around worrying that my files were lost somewhere in cyberspace. I haven't, however, heard from the dean there that I've been communicating with. I'm chalking this up to one of two things: 1) He's super-busy and/or 2) He might think it's a good thing for me to apply for this job but can't really be giving me "insider" tips and so maybe there will be e-mail silence for a bit. Unfortunately for me, this means waiting for a few weeks - the auto-response said that I would be contacted about two weeks after the close of the application period. That's still a little over three weeks away. I thought that I would sit around obsessing over hearing about an interview, but it turns out that knowing I won't hear from them anytime soon is a good thing. I've put thoughts of this application to the back of my brain and have been able to concentrate on other things.
Two days ago, as I was going through the daily check of the websites I came across an advertisement for an instructor position in Microbiology. Now, Microbiology isn't my exact field, but I've had to deal with quite a bit of it over the years. Additionally, this advertisement went on to say that besides Microbiology, the qualified candidate would be proficient in A, B and C.....all of which are my field and so I figured I would apply. This one was pretty easy, they just wanted me to e-mail a cover letter (I now have a really good one, thanks to all the effort I put in before I applied for the job in the first paragraph), CV (honed nearly to death) and teaching philosophy (which I had also significantly improved a few weeks ago). It took me 15 minutes to change a few words here and there and to send it off. This application process is a bit different than the one mentioned above. It's an ongoing process - they'll start interviews right away and just keep going until the fill the position. I e-mailed at the end of the day on Tuesday, so I'm not counting that as a day. Really, it's only been one since I applied, and it is the very end of the week in which the job was first advertised. I suppose I won't give up on this on until the first couple of days of next week have passed with no word.
That's the job search update. It's been a month and a day since finding out I needed to be looking and I have to say, that while I'm not getting many bites, I'm encouraged that there are a few jobs coming out each week that are what I'm looking for. I feel like it could definitely be worse.
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