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It’s academic job market season. Here is an ode to why people say it’s not you. A 
One job I applied to several times has never invited me to campus, but uses my work as examples in their doctoral training.
I was once told while shaking the hand of a search committee member that I should say exactly what I said in my interview with them in all my other interviews. They hired an internal applicant with less publications and teaching experience than me.
In an end of the campus visit meeting with an administrator, they told me what package they intended to offer me, but said it couldn’t be official yet because of paperwork. They sent me a rejection while I was on the plane ride home.
Once I’d secured an academic position, an administrator told me I should be happy about not getting the first grant I had applied for because it would give me more time with my children.
When I applied several times to a job I was well-qualified for, a search committee member told me over drinks that they had too many faculty from my university to hire me.
In an interview with a research firm, when I asked how they prioritized peer reviewed publications versus reports, they told me they prefer to focus on work that matters and has impact, and journal articles ain’t it.
Friends, listen. My approach has always been that I’ll do good work no matter where I go. And I know you will, too. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk, entitled “why thank u, next” is an anthem for the academic job market. Stay gracious. You’re a star.
