I think prior comments on this are spot on. If the CFP are placing restrictions on applicants, which do not immediately appear relevant to the job, you should question the justification for this.
Naturally stipulating specific qualifications or the equivalents is perfectly legitimate. Membership of a professional body might also be a legitimate job qualifier, although why this should be for a publication of this type is a mystery.
I would argue that any employer which rejects an applicant based on inaccurate information supplied in the job advert is acting unfairly/unethically. It is perhaps obvious to say that the majority of job descriptions/person specifications are drawn up by human resource staff and not the recruiting manager. This may therefore represent a failure of internal communication which you are disadvantaged by.
Chris
Christopher J. Rossiter BSc MSc
Department of Psychology & Surrey Business School
24 AC 04 University of Surrey, Guildford. GU2 7XH
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Maybe ask for an actual JD/person spec. Would you consider joining the BPS if it made it more likely you'd be considered for the job? I'm a very lapsed member of the collective and would be motivated to be more involved if you were at the helm! There is always a danger that the CPF and other similar trade mags get clogged up with rather repetitive papers detailing groups or audits often submitted by quite junior psychologists who assume there is a "accepted" range of topics and formats which they should reproduce. However, Forum really is still worth supporting for the odd (in all senses of the word) little nugget. Maybe time for a critical/community coup?
Deborah
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> A story: 25 years ago the DCP phoned me out of the blue to ask me to edit Clinical Psychology Forum. I wasn't a member of the BPS but they said I would have the job if I joined. I edited Forum for 19 years, from a 6x per year publication to monthly, created the collective (it was once just me), steered it thru the deaths of two collective members + my partner Jacqui who used to type it all in, and was the longest serving member of the DCP committee. Along the way I was Chair of the Psychotherapy Section + came back to edit CPF 8 months after a nr fatal accident. I applied for the vacant post last month having checked that no-one on the collective was interested. I have just been told that I am not eligible as I'm not a member of the BPS and there have been other 'expressions of interest.' The job advert made no mention of BPS membership. So, what to do? C
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