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> 
> As far as I understand, the average ratio of applications per faculty job
> in academia (universities and colleges) is still in the hundreds to one or
> worse.
> 
> Its sad but at a recent advertisement for jobs at a new Wal-Mart store in
> the southern Delmarva area (the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia peninsula),
> there were 1200 applicants for 350 jobs. Or, in other words, a finite
> (rather than nearly infinitesimal) chance to get a job. 
> 
You are close on the academic ratio, but I have several members of search
committees tell me it is not quite as bad as it sounds.  They say that
more than half of the applications are rejected out-of-hand because they
don't come even close to what the advertised for (example: Liberal arts
college with teaching emphasis wants p-chemist,  and the get bunches of
resumes from organic pot-boilers with big research plans).  There are a
lot of people using the shotgun apporach to job hunting.  Another 10-20%
get rejected because they have weak vitaes (no significant publications). 
So maybe you get down to 30 reasonable candidates that you might look at a
little closer.  Still not as good as wal-mart, but not as scary as 200:1.
Forrest Weesner
fweesner@students.wisc.edu