1. Interviewing and Giving a Killer Job Talk
Paul Eastwick
University of Texas at Austin

2. You’ve got the interview…
Why interview?
You vs. your record
Show the breadth and depth of your expertise
Demonstrate where you’re headed
Collegiality
Assessing fit
Being a team-player
I can see you’ve published things in good places, and maybe I even know your work already. Or, you can teach the classes we want, you get good teaching ratings, and you sound creative. You passed that bar.

3. What to Expect on the Interview
One-on-one meetings with faculty
Common research interests (read ahead!)
Funding possibilities
Understanding of the research landscape
“Do you have questions for me?” (Hint: yes)
Meetings with graduate students
Common research interests
Age difference
Engage rather than impress
Your questions matter – “little grants to leverage into big grants”

4. What to Expect on the Interview
Meeting with a Dean (or Sidekick Dean)
Teaching a class to undergrads
Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffee, drinks
You are still on an interview
But you can have fun
Follow their lead

5. Your Job Talk The structure Hourglass is more important than ever
You are tackling an interesting and important issue…
…in a theoretically compelling way
You have thought deeply about it
You are programmatic
Watch the details – you are giving a talk to a whole department – what do they need to know?
Many studies in one line, a handful on others
You are creative but grounded in the literature
You have (started to) solve the issue
You have breadth
You have a future
Remember, this is interesting and important

6. Your Job Talk The style: You are not a lawyer or a politician
You don’t have to know the answer, but you can engage with the question
You are respectful of people’s time (45 mins)
Know your audience (basic vs. applied)
Can you reason through the question? They’re testing how you think – talk out loud. Can you think in a clear way about research? Can pull in some related work? Can you make theoretically grounded predictions?

7. Afterwards Thank yous Waiting…. If you get the offer, negotiate!
Salary
Summer salary
Startup/space
Teaching leave
You met a bunch of new potential colleagues, even if you don’t get the job. It’s networking. It’s great experience.

8. Just a little research…
Romantic judgments
Mostly dyadic variance (Joe and Amy like each other; Eastwick & Hunt, 2014)
Also job judgments?
This candidate is amazing for this job
Face-to-face contact and experience with a person increases dyadic variance. The same with job judgments? I don’t think anyone knows, but I think that’s intuitively why we do it.

9. Get It