How to be the #1 pick in an R1 faculty search

[@yasuhiroarimura4942]

I watched this video repeatedly before my chalk talk. Thanks to your video, I was able to get into my dream place! Thank you so much for your amazing seminar and for sharing this with the public!

[@fireinthehole2272]

NOT THE DEALING WITH DEPRESSION SLIDE 😭😭😭😭

[@theoryramdon181]

very inspirational, I recommend people rewatch it again and again, it is very thought-provoking, learnt a lot.

[@camiloduartecordon6350]

This is the best talk I've heard about the faculty job application. Thanks for sharing it!

[@LoseYourself-j1w]

This is the best advise. Other lectures at youtube are all talking about chalk talk or interview -,- after "arbitrarily" being short-listed.

[@zonghaoyang6727]

I am preparing for the job market, and I am so grateful that KZbin recommended this video to me.

[@testxy5555]

I have gone on 5 campus visits (2 in 2020, 1 in 2021, 2 in this year, after 2 years of industry in between). I can attest this talk is on point about academic positions and choosing it as a long-term career. The concept of being a visionary scholar, and the communication of a grant applicant/PI, it's rarely taught in grad school classes, a good mentor might teach you those things, but not every mentor.

[@m-sa4335]

Did you get the position finally? what do you see as your weakness for the first visits that caused you not to get the job, if you don't mind sharing?

[@testxy5555]

@@m-sa4335 Happy to share. Yes, but it says nothing about me really. Most of the cases when I didn't get the job, I had inside intel and it's about politics. Those who control the spice control the universe, where spice being money/funding, and universe being all decisions they see profit in, e.g., hiring, promotion, awards.

[@Tay-ho6sg]

😂 some things can't or shouldn't be taught, that's the hallmarks of good scientists. It's almost always never too late thou

[@mistaroblivion]

Everyone needs to hear the "My Story" part around 33:45.

[@infoforyou7551]

Thanks for being brutally honest.

[@lidayan9009]

Thank you so much for sharing this impressive presentation!

[@yasuhiroarimura4942]

Thank you for sharing this amazing talk. I wish I could have watched this during my PhD training...

[@ZhiyuanZhang-b5g]

The most genuine career talk ever! Would you care to share more about the training of charisma and voice control? 😊

[@testxy5555]

Such a great talk. Very compelling and a lot of hard work. Thank you for sharing!

[@xiangdonglyu5118]

As I am on the market for a faculty job, your talk is really helpful! Thanks for sharing!

[@bharathsivaram7994]

I don't even have a PhD but this was such an awesome talk and some of the points apply to general career as well. Great public speaker!

[@jackied.v.carson6059]

I'm an undergrad now looking to along on this path. This was so inspiring. Thank you Professor Sun!

[@pemaipemai7766]

Thank you so much for sharing such a great talk!

[@diseno2040]

Several strong messages here for all PhD and Postdocs

[@xyz4704]

Thank you so much for sharing! Although I m in social science and applying for a UK lecturer position it's still helpful.

[@kaitlinmccreery7650]

Thank you for sharing! This talk is amazingly helpful at this point in my career.

[@yuhanlu1901]

Many thanks for sharing your experience.

[@trantrang1025]

Thank you so much for sharing this video!

[@LoseYourself-j1w]

8:20 I looked at new faculty members who were hired in 2019~2022. None of them was outstanding or distinguished. Not even close. They had one or two papers. One girl said her strength that she thinks is to get a scholarship during phD, not billion dollar research grant or NSF funding...-,- Of course she had 1 or 2 papers.The university (it was top school) proudly posted this on their website. I thought this is like a beauty test to be selected by young age. World-class independent research sounds good but question is what the world-class is. Is it MIT graduate? Google scholarship? Or old man having 100 papers? Level of faculty is revealed when hiring a new faculty member...

[@甜甜短剧社]

lucky to watch this video, thanks！

[@que6114]

Great talk! Coming from a philosophy gradaute student this applies to my field to a large extent too.

[@MrWujie27]

amazing presentation. thank you for sharing.

[@profpat24]

Thank you for sharing, this was extremely helpful!

[@leejerry1860]

What a great talk! Very encouraging and insightful!

[@HFVXML]

thank you so much for the information, your perspective on this is valuable

[@shanqin2545]

Fantastic talk! Thank you for sharing.

[@wyj4549]

Great talk! Thanks for sharing!

[@yuangao1090]

Genuine and informative!

[@letiziadandrea3661]

Amazing presentation!!!

[@reemnaila9576]

Your future begins with your next thought.

[@shaileshvarade]

Great talk thanks for sharing. Can we get the slides of these presentation. They are very informative and will be veru appriciated if shared.

[@testxy5555]

same request, the fonts are kind of small on the slides in this video. This is a great talk!

[@changliu8430]

Hi! Same request here. Did you get the slides?

[@GypsyQuizzer]

@@changliu8430 No. I did not.

[@windleafsun1936]

Very powerful video for academia application！

[@aykenaskapuli7606]

Impressive presentation-informative and inspirational!

[@chihinchan5320]

Immensely valuable. Thanks

[@Crytoma]

Very helpful

[@shivashankarp9255]

Great talk!

[@LoseYourself-j1w]

The best part of this session was to set us free from a machine learning boom which is obviously bubble. Machine learning doesn't work. It reproduces bias and error of reference (training) data. Thank you so much. These days a quality of journal is getting low because of meta data + machin learning boom. I don't understand why they don't understand non-linearity. Editors and profs think that more and more (although wrong + biased) data are better.

[@binodpaudel2699]

Very nice one, enjoyed it.

[@sgmousta]

Thanks!

[@zxseason]

Although these are all true and interview process is so intense, I still see a lot of professors doing research making no sense and have no insights into the field.

[@michaeletzkorn]

On the practicing communication part, something I've liked, as someone who tends to struggle with controlling my stream of consciousness during conversation, is taking a random word generator and talking about the generated word for 2-5 minutes. I've only been doing it for a few weeks, and I've already seen improvement in the way I can distill the stream of consciousness into a cohesive message. Vinh Giang (KZbin famous communication skills teacher) suggests the practice as a way to improve the mind-mouth connection.

[@luhuang5405]

UofM is amazing.

[@creampieGuy11]

State school 😅

[@MaskedEngineer-kj5kt]

Basically you need to be so smart to have time and ability to do the extra things. That’s the bottom line. Lol.