{"id":2229,"date":"2024-12-09T13:05:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2024-12-09T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T00:21:47","slug":"hiring-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/hiring-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiring season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hiring season and your dean has approved your linguistics department for a new tenure line. Naturally, you&#8217;re looking to hire an exciting young &#8220;hyphenate&#8221; type who can, among other things, strengthen your computational linguistics offerings, help students transition into industry roles and perhaps even incorporate generative AI into more mundane parts of your curriculum (sigh). There are two problems I see with this. First, most people applying for these positions don&#8217;t actually have relevant industry experience, so while they can certainly teach your students to code, they don&#8217;t know much about industry practices. Secondly, an awful lot of them would probably prefer to be a full-time software engineer, all things considered, and are going to take leave\u2014if not quit outright\u2014if the opportunity ever becomes available. (&#8220;Many such cases.&#8221;) The only way to avoid this scenario, as I see it, is to find people who <em>have already been software engineers<\/em> and\u00a0<em>don&#8217;t want to be them anymore<\/em>, and fortunately, there are several of us.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hiring season and your dean has approved your linguistics department for a new tenure line. Naturally, you&#8217;re looking to hire an exciting young &#8220;hyphenate&#8221; type who can, among other things, strengthen your computational linguistics offerings, help students transition into industry roles and perhaps even incorporate generative AI into more mundane parts of your curriculum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/hiring-season\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hiring season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-dev","category-language","category-presentation-of-self","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}