I got it if you still want, but looks like too late?

Thank you so much for good wishes Ady. I am really sorry that it wasn't good news this time but you'll see, soon everything will be so much better. So I wish you good luck with the next one. Oh by the way, this is usually a good time for securing a place in the universities' pool for Associate Lecturers. Would you consider something like that? I don't know your subject but sometimes they are not even advertised. Or they are only advertised on university websites. Might be worth sending CVs to departments?

Oh Ady, that is so mean, so unfair. Sounds like a stupid mistake on their side. The HR person should have been more careful. But on the other hand (I don't mean to give false hope of course but still...) do you think it would be a good idea to contact them and ask with a tongue-in-cheek way whether they sent the correct email? You know, it could easily be the other way round. They meant to send you an invite for an interview, but copy-pasted the wrong content?

Thank you very much for good words Doodles. I will attend this other interview too, as I think not going would be a great opportunity to be missed. But you're right. It's such a relief; I look forward to being employed again. How is your post-viva action plan going? All good I hope?

Yes, I agree with Claudia. I suggested to call Monday for the same reasons. But if you call now at least it will give you peace of mind. Good luck whatever you decide to do; I hope you'll get a positive response from them soon.

But some institutions are still using hard-copy letters to inform candidates. I received one a few weeks ago (to my surprise); there was no email only a letter. So I don't mean to give you wrong advice but what if they contacted you by post and you haven't received? Or the email went to your junk folder by accident? Perhaps wait til Monday and call?

Thank you so much for the replies. I was still in two minds, so haven't asked them about the panel members. But in the meantime received an offer for the other job. Hmmmm. I'm very happy and confused at the same time :-)

Thank you Doodles :-)

I have another lecturer job interview approaching, but this time the names of panel members who will be interviewing me weren't included on the invitation letter. Before my last interview at another institution, I was given the names of the interviewers without having to ask, and this gave me the chance to look them up and find out what similarities we have in research topics, approaches etc. Do you think it would be ok to contact HR and ask for this info, or would it sound rude? One voice in my head says this is unnecessary and knowing who they are shouldn't make any difference, but the other says it can be quite useful. Hmmmm...

Congratulations. It's great to hear some positive news. Good luck with the 2nd job option also. (up)

Thank you all for the good advice and encouragement. Reading those papers now.

Thank you for the kind words Treefrog. I have just seen your thread and read about the job situation. Good luck with the postdoc job next week. Let us know how it goes.

Thank you Memo / Chrisrolinski. I'll need the luck ;-)

Hi forum readers... I could do with your advice on how to handle the 3 job interviews I've got next week for lecturing positions. Although I am happy that these interviews came just in time before I lost my mind, I don't have much confidence left to be honest as I had to apply for so many non-academic jobs (all-levels) and received over 200 rejections in the last 5 months. Still keep getting rejected by even the simples jobs you can imagine (yeah, the usual you're over-qualified / not commercial enough / you'll leave us when you get an academic job / you gonna take my job in a year / you left your PhD out on CV but it came up on google search haha! / you'll be bored in this position/ we need a more junior person etc etc type of feedback.

Then suddenly in the last month, out of blue, academic jobs in my field started to be advertised again. I know this is the right time for the academic jobs but for the last 2 years there weren't any appropriate for me advertised. Anyway, after seeing the light, I started to apply for academic jobs again, and so far I received 3 invitations out of 8 job applications. Who knows, I might hear from the others too. But as I said in the beginning, my self confidence is shaken badly, and I really don't want to mess up these interviews.

On all of the job descriptions, "PhD or similar" was stated under the essential criteria, so the subject will come up at the interview naturally. I mentioned on my application that I submitted my thesis 8 months ago. Had my viva a few months ago, given major corrections to resubmit, but without another viva or further examination in any form, so that's cool. Although the thought of my PhD still hanging was a big disappointment for me at the time, I now see it as an opportunity to better my thesis, so it's all good. But I don't know how to word this at the interview. So, any tips on this or the interview process generally from your experience would be very much appreciated.

Yay! The 'export travelling library' option worked perfectly. All fields exported perfectly. And the citation codes did not break at all. So, in case anyone else needs this, the solution is here (as copied from Griffith University handbook; oh and even though I have Word 2003, I had to follow the 2nd option):

To recreate your library in Word 2003:
1. Press Alt-F8.
2. Select ENExportTravelingLibrary from the list and press enter.
3. Specify the library and press enter.

To recreate your library in Word 2007:
1. Open word file.
2. Click on EndNote X3 tab.
3. Select Export to EndNote -> Export Traveling library.

Because references were placed into the Word document through Endnote with "cite while you write" method, I was hoping there would be some way to reverse the process. Thank you very much for your answer.