Interviewing Well With a Focus on Entry-Level Academic Faculty Jobs Part 2: Interviews and General Principles

This video, part 2 of a series, focuses on the interview process itself, as well as a number of general principles of interviewing well.

The video is focused on the example of an entry-level academic faculty hire, but a lot of the concepts are more broadly applicable to interviewing for many types of position both inside and outside academia.

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Part 1 covering the interview context, can be found here.

🕒 Timestamps are as follows:

📌 (0:00) Interviewing Well Part 2
📌 (0:12) Interviews & General Principles
📌 (0:20) Interviews Complement Other Activities Like Talks
📌 (0:36) Attitude Matters, But Be Authentic
📌 (0:48) Question: What Drew You To This Role?
📌 (1:16) Question: Balancing Priorities
📌 (1:51) Question: How Would You Lead Activity X?
📌 (2:27) Soft Skills Question: Challenging Past Experience
📌 (3:00) Soft Skills Question: Hypothetical Scenario
📌 (3:32) Question: Internal and External Service
📌 (3:59) Question: Where Do You Want to Be in 5 Years?
📌 (4:34) Teaching Discussion Topics in Interviews
📌 (5:13) More Teaching Discussion: Bridging Divides
📌 (5:39) Show You Understand Teaching Realities
📌 (5:56) Balancing New Innovations with Practicality
📌 (6:26) Research Discussion: How You’d Run the Group
📌 (6:59) Dealing with Combatative Panelists
📌 (7:42) Past History Questions
📌 (8:04) General Principles of Interviewing Well
📌 (8:16) A Mixture of Experience and Theory
📌 (9:21) Practice Makes Perfect
📌 (9:56) Open But Never Threatening, About Other Options
📌 (10:28) Interview Skills Are For Life and Generally Useful
📌 (10:44) The Interview is About More Than the Specific Role
📌 (11:10) Remember to Enjoy the Process!