It’s noon, I just got back from the Left Coast, where I had a job interview at a very nice law school with seductive weather, and even though I’ve been up for 30 hours, I’m not at all sleepy.
Gah.
I’d really love to be able to sleep on planes. I keep meaning to get a small prescription for Valium or something before I fly, which might help knock me out (or maybe just make me not care that I can’t sleep). Not a damn wink on the red eye.
This was my first full second-round interview with the Dreaded Presentation. Which I sort of winged on format, because I haven’t been able to get much of an answer from anyone about what a DP should consist of. But I was able to fill my time completely, keep the interest of my audience, and answer questions. I also did well during the panel interview portion, where I was interviewed by separate panels of the librarians and the technical services staff — and I sucked up shamelessly to the latter. I’ve certainly figured out that it doesn’t help to direct someone to a source if it’s not there because tech services doesn’t have the resources to get it back on the shelf or update it.
It helped, too, that the director of the law library has been pretty open about the fact that he really wants me to succeed. So I didn’t feel that there was much skepticism to overcome. I should know soon, but I’m also interviewing with other schools that probably won’t schedule their second-round interviews until early September.
Good luck! I still get stress dreams about interviewing. It pulls a lot out of you.
The best advice I ever got about interviewing was “try to get the job, but try harder to keep your self-respect.”
You seem to get this. Crossing fingers for ya!
Academic interviews are tough! And all-day! I’m used to getting jobs after being interviewed by one or two people for an hour or so, but this was six hours of interviewing, including two panels, a group interview, lunch, dinner, presentation, HR and a sit-down with the director. Plus a tour of the city before dinner. I had to be “on” for 12 hours.