Hi all, Can I please get some input from those of you who make hiring decisions? I am a recent Public History MA with prior museum experience. After receiving the latest issue of AVISO, I quickly responded to 9 ads for positions for which I qualified. Several of these museums were kind enough to write me by return mail and say that they had already selected a person to fill the position, even though the closing date was still several weeks in the future. Is it really ethical to advertise a position when the institution has no intention of playing by the rules and giving all applicants an equal chance? I realize that some museums are required to advertise any openings (although just who sets these rules is never quite clear), but I think it is very unfair to those job-seekers who spend hours writing resumes and cover letters to museums that already have chosen their candidates before placing the ad. A disgruntled job-seeker