Spousal-hire arrangements at a postdoc level In contract to available information for faculty positions, I would be interested to learn how to go for a spousal-hire arrangement at a postdoc level. In my view, there are three factors that might play a role (similarity of work, obviousness of the relationship, funding).

My specific question:

How would you approach as a rather obvious couple (based on overlap in the CV) an application to the same lab (due to the same sub-specialization)?


Two independet applications or single application?
Mentioning the partner or not?
Or applications seperated over time? I.e. one application and then asking for a spousal-hire arrangement during the actual hiring process?
I do not think that any of these are realistic strategies.  Sorry.

If you are in a field where there are many jobs, you may be able so separately obtain positions which are in the same city.

Spousal hire arrangements are used to recruit highly prestigious candidates to permanent faculty positions.  It would be unusual to have the resources to use that hiring strategy for a temporary postdoc position.