The interview was conducted by two members of the department on Teams. It seemed like a formality and that they were doing it as an obligation to meet the process requirements having already made up their mind about hiring.

A one hour interview with two deans and two professors, a 15 minute teaching lesson and afterward the forwarding of extensive documentation of upward of 15 documents. I rejected the “offer” as initially was told I was the role would commence in fall 2026 and after providing extensive and repetitive documentation in addition to approval after approval after approval from various departments, I was then asked again to update an online profile with all of the same information, and told that id been successfully added to a shortlist of pooled applicants and id be let known when “someone picked me”. Word of advice - when you have the opportunity to secure highly qualified highly educated academics with extensive research experience and skills who have worked at some of t the top academic institutions in the world , don’t change the terms and conditions of the offer from a fall start date to “you’ve been added to a pool of applicants and we’ll pick you when and if it suits us”. It’s not a cattle market. Particularly bewildering considering the majority of current staff don’t even have PhDs and only bachelors degrees with no academic experience whatsoever.