The meaning of "researching careers"

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The author was offered to become a practitioner in the Organizational Behavior department at Harvard Business School to help to connect the faculty with the real world, he went to have an interview and he felt that not everyone was keen on the idea of brining him as a practitioner. "A few days later, I heard from the OB group that they didn't see a fit. They had a number of faculty who were researching careers, and there was too much overlap with other faculty."
I don't understand what's meant by "researching careers"? they were more involved in research?
The source is a book titled ""Teaching by Heart".

Elliot · Answer

You can see that as they "find too much overlap" that they are looking for a position or job that is not already being done(?) by another employed or other faculty there. Here the career they are looking for or researching is the job description to fit the potentially incoming employee.
It sounds as if this were an (lame) excuse to prevent a challenging perspective from being brought into their happy home. It took "research" to determine that some of them were already doing enough of that "connecting to the real world" thing.

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