Do you have an on-campus interview coming up? Most likely you will be required to teach a class. History teaching guru Kevin Gannon, aka @thetattooedprof, offers some tips as you prepare your demonstration. Here is a taste: Plan to use […]
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Skype Interview Nightmares
From Stephanie Hull of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: One candidate allowed her hamster to run loose in her home. During her interview, it ran up the back of her shirt and popped out on her shoulder, next to […]
Have You Seen Claire Potter’s Advice for History Job-Seekers?
Several years ago Inside Higher Ed published a few of my pieces on interviewing for jobs at various kinds of history departments. Here is my piece on interviewing at church-related colleges. Here is my piece on interviewing at teaching colleges. I […]
Don’t Text During a Job Interview
Who does this? Here is a taste of Karen Klesky‘s recent entry at “The Professor is In”: During a recent campus interview at my university, a candidate met with department members for dinner and basically spent the entire meal texting. […]
The Next Step in the Humanities “Counterattack” is “Translation”
In my book Why Study History: A Historical Introduction I wrote: But there are also larger issues that history teachers and professors, and school and college administrators, must confront if they want to be effective career counselors. For example, we must […]
How To Interview at a Teaching College
A few years ago I wrote a couple of pieces at Inside Higher Ed on interviewing for college teaching jobs. I wrote about interviewing at a teaching college here and interviewing at teaching a church-related teaching college here. Today at The Chronicle of Higher […]
How to Interview for a Job at a Church-Related College or University
On Saturday, I wrote a post about interviewing for jobs in history departments at teaching colleges. Today I offer some tips about interviewing for a teaching job at a church-related college or university. These also come from an Inside Higher Education […]
How to Interview for a Job in a History Department at a Teaching College
A few years ago I wrote this piece at Inside Higher Ed. Perhaps some of my thoughts here might prove useful to graduate students and others preparing for interviews at the upcoming American Historical Association meeting in Atlanta. Here is a […]
And I’ll Also Take a College Car, My Own Personal Secretary, and a Fully-Stocked Wet Bar in My Office
Nazareth College Over at The Inside Higher Ed, Colleen Flaherty writes about a woman who received an offer for a tenure-track job in the philosophy department at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY and then negotiated herself out of a job. Here […]
Are You Interviewing at the AHA? Some Last Minute Tips
If you are on the job market and have been fortunate enough to land an interview at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association being held this weekend in Washington D.C., you may want to check out a few […]
Why You Should Say “Yes” To Any Job Interview
CAREEREALISM offers six reasons why you should say “yes” to any job interview (whether you want the job or not). By doing that interview you can: 1. Sharpen your interviewing skills. You can read all the interviewing tips you want, […]
Navigating the Academic Job Market
Eunice Williams (a pseudonym, but I am imagining she might be an early Americanist who knows the story of the Williams family as portrayed in John Demos’s masterful The Unredeemed Captive) shares her experience on the academic job market at […]
Do You Have an “On Campus Visit?”
I hope that many of my readers on the academic job market get calls this week inviting them for an “on campus” interview. Over at gradhacker, Julie Platt has some good advice for those who will be traveling to colleges […]
Interviewing at a Teaching College–My “Latest” at “Inside Higher Ed”
Are you interviewing at the AHA in New Orleans this weekend? Today’s Inside Higher Ed is running an old “The Way of Improvement Leads Home” blog post on interviewing at teaching colleges. Here is a taste:This piece is about interviewing […]
How to Give a Job Talk
I have sat through some bad job talks and I have seen some great ones. I have also delivered my fair share of jobs talks. Some of them have been successful, some of them have not. Some of them I […]
AHA Interview Tips
A couple of years ago I wrote a series of post on interviewing at the AHA. I am not going to reprint them here, but if you have not read them yet, you can find them by clicking on these […]
Goodbye Meat Market, Hello Skype
More and more history departments are using Skype to interview job candidates. Over at Inside Higher Ed, Lynn Lubamersky of Boise State University argues that Skype interviews are not only cheap (they’re free!), but they put job candidates at ease […]
Interviewing for a Job at a Religious College
A couple of weeks ago we did a post on an Inside Higher Ed essay by Susan VanZanten on the prospects of teaching at a religious college. VanZanten has followed that piece up with one on interviewing for a job […]
Fair Point About Why Wheaton Says No
Yesterday we commented on Timothy Larson’s Inside Higher Ed article on how he, as a chair of search committees, answers the questions of rejected job candidates at Wheaton College. It was a helpful and informative article. This morning at Cliopatria, […]
What Rejected Job Candidates Say
Check out Timothy Larson’s piece in today’s Inside Higher Ed. According to Larson, these are the four questions he hears most often from rejected job candidates at Wheaton College: Given how eminently well qualified I am for this position, how […]