Monday, January 4, 2021

Virtual Interviews and Job Talks

 It's a whole new world with interviews and job talks being conducted online. Your advisors probably have little to no experience with this and so won't be able to help so much. Luckily, there's twitter and very helpful people (ie, Alicia Plemmons) who so generously provide helpful advice on twitter. 

Check out this thread on preparing for interviews. My favorite: practice your talk with a BUNCH of friends on whatever platform you'll be using for the interviews. Increase internet speed if necessary. 

This one is on the virtual job talk. My favorite there: Build in breaks. Stop to ask people if they have questions. During a face to face talk, people feel more comfortable interrupting. Also, you'd be able to see if a person had a question by looking at facial expressions. Online, you may just have to stop and ask.

She also has threads on job market documents as well as networking, but I haven't looked at them carefully just yet. 

Good luck to all of you on the job market!