If it’s conference season, it must also be time for the first-round of academic job interviews. Advice on the academic job market and on interviewing is legion; see, for example, The Chronicle’s ...

Interviewing at this stage comes with slightly different expectations than an interview immediately following your undergraduate education. Employers want to hear how your research or experiences can ...

... for a "visiting professor" position that has a good chance of leading to a tenure-tack offer in a year. This will be my first job out of grad school.<BR><BR>I ...

Last year, one of us, Peter, was applying for teaching positions. I was at the end of a three-year teaching postdoc at the University of British Columbia and was searching for my next step. The ...

I recently read Edmond Lau’s terrific article for engineering job candidates, which stressed that the interviewee must ask thoughtful questions of the interviewer. Being in the middle of the faculty ...

This is the fourth of five installments of “How to Get an Academic Job,” a new guide on the tenure-track search from our Career Talk columnists. Previously the series explored “How to Manage Your ...