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Category: Tips from Search Committee Members
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The first seven posts in this series examined how hiring committees read and evaluate CVs, cover letters, research statements, teaching statements, diversity statements, writing samples, and letters of recommendation. Let's now turn to first-round interviews. If you've served on a search committee, How do you and the other members of the committee approach first-round interviews? What sorts of things…
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The first six posts in this series examined how hiring committees read and evaluate CVs, cover letters, research statements, teaching statements, diversity statements, and writing samples. Before we move onto first-round interviews and various aspects of on-campus visits (e.g., job talks, teaching demos, etc.), I'd like to finish up this first part of the series by asking search committee…
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The first five posts in this series examined how hiring committees read and evaluate CVs, cover letters, research statements, teaching statements, and diversity statements. Before we move on to two other subjects that I suspect a lot of job-candidates would like to hear from search committees on–first-round interviews and on-campus visits–I'd like to wrap up our discussion of dossier…
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In our job-market discussion thread, a reader asks: How much biography is it appropriate to include in a diversity statement? (I have experienced some serious barriers, disclosure of which might risk being TMI, but I think also shows massive resilience and capacity to balance heavy demands while also doing good work) Another reader responded: As…