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Notes from the other side of the table at the Joint meetings
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Job Search
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By kroth
Posted Tue Nov 01, 2005 at 05:04:34 AM PDT
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My department had a successful search last year. Here are some things I noticed when interviewing canidates at the Joint Meetings.
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My school is a small catholic (Jesuit actually) liberal arts college, so my point of view comes from the needs of a job search of a small liberal arts college where teaching is the primary activity.
At the preliminary interview:
1) Do arrive on time, since we have many interviews scheduled. Don't come to your interview table more than 5 minutes early though, even if there is no one at the table, give the committee the time to look at your file before you arrive. It will make us much more comfortable.
2) Do not assume that the interviewers remember the finer details of your teaching statment etc. at the preliminary interview. We've probably had a chance to read it, but you are our 5th interview today and we are getting details mixed up. Just remind us.
3) Look up basics about the school Despite being a Jesuit school very few of our applicants when asked knew what that meant. Anyone who did went up in our ranking.
4) Do not assume because our school is called a university that it has a math grad program. Small universities in the US typically do not. This falls under the same category as 3).
5) We will of course ask you about teaching. Make sure you have questions about what it is like to teach at our school as well as polished answers to the questions.
6) Remember at a small school that service (generally committee work) is part of the workload. We may ask about your willingness to do such work (in fact if I remember correctly our dean insisted we do so at preliminary interviews)
Notes about the curiculum vitae(cv):
1) Label independent teaching clearly on cv. Don't just state that your teaching was independent in your teaching statement, we may miss it.
2) While a cv shouldn't be too long (mine for example is 4 pages), it is better not to have a one page resume style cv. They typically don't contain enough details.
3) In a cv list teaching experience near the beginning for teaching jobs. It is probably best to have two different ones if you are applying to both teaching and research jobs.
Best of luck on the market this year!
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