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Inappropriate academic interview #1
Since Caroline posted the wonderful primer on how to prepare for non-academic job interviews, I can’t help but offer my own experiences with academic job interviews. As the #1 in the title suggests,...
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Last Week on Post Academic (4/11-4/17)
At the end of one week and the beginning of another, we catch our collective breaths on the blog and gather up links to some of the posts that have either cycled off the home page or might have been...
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Interviews You Don’t Want to Have #1
I know, it’s a little early to start thinking about MLA interviews, especially since the first notifications probably aren’t happening for almost a month. And who knows how things are gonna work this...
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Conference Etiquette: The Post-Interview Run-In
So here’s yet another reason why you should bolt from the conference site as soon as you can: What do you do when you run into your interviewers outside the headquarters hotel or on an escalator or at...
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Interviews You Don’t Want to Have #2
This post goes out to all you bright-eyed, bushy-tailed dissertators who are full of hope and, probably for good reason, looking forward to a bright future in academia. Of course, I’m not entirely...
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Interviews You Don’t Want to Have #3: You Need an Entrance Strategy
This installment of “Interviews You Don’t Want to Have” actually recalls one of the best interviews I’ve had at MLA. I thought I hit my marks, got my dissertation spiel off as cleanly as possible, and...
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Interviews You Don’t Want to Have #4: The One I Didn’t Want to Have
You know the trainwreck I hinted to last time? I’m gonna get to that for our series finale, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have more to write about. The one I’m describing today was an interview I...
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