Interviewing Well With a Focus on Entry-Level Academic Faculty Jobs Part 1: Context and Structure

Interviewing well is a key skill that will serve you well for your entire professional life, both for interviews themselves but also for a range of related activities like presenting.

In this new two part video series in my hacking academia line of tutorial videos, I cover the key considerations to interviewing well – including understanding the context, the interview structure and related areas, key things panels may ask you or be looking for, and broader principles.

This page pertains to Part 1, which covers the context and interview structure considerations.

Part 2 covering the interview process itself and general principles, can be found here.

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🕒 Timestamps are as follows:

📌 (0:00) Interviewing Well Part 1: Context and Structure
📌 (0:21) The Start of Many Academic Careers
📌 (0:32) Many Interview Tips are Broadly Relevant
📌 (0:42) Broad Principle: Accurately Portray Yourself
📌 (1:10) Understanding the Context
📌 (1:38) Single or Batch of Positions
📌 (1:55) You’re Likely One of Two Types of Candidates
📌 (2:17) The Conventional Candidate
📌 (2:46) The Wildcard Candidate
📌 (3:20) Wildcard Candidate Example
📌 (3:59) Implications of Being a Wildcard Candidate
📌 (4:32) Understanding What The Organisation Wants
📌 (4:51) Roles Building Critical Mass in Existing Areas
📌 (5:21) Roles Establishing a New Area of Capacity
📌 (5:36) Open-Ended Roles
📌 (5:53) Finding out information
📌 (6:56) Structure of the Interview Process
📌 (7:05) Typical Components of an Interview Process
📌 (7:46) Order and Attendance Can be Chaotic
📌 (8:19) Practise Concisely Briefing People
📌 (8:44) Combining Vision and Effectiveness
📌 (9:23) The Research Talk
📌 (10:15) Teaching Talk
📌 (10:51) Knowing the Area You’d Be Working In
📌 (11:32) An opportunity for you to find out more
📌 (11:51) Part 1 Summary and Part 2 Preview