January 15, 2009

Dispatches From the First Interview

By ANNE GALINA and LYNN ELLIOTT

Two Ph.D. candidates experience a brief and unexpected respite from the usual coldness and bad manners of the hiring process

We have now won minor battles in our continuing war on academic unemployment, having each made the initial cut for a tenure-track position. The reward for this routing of the enemy troops, who are fighting to employ us as barmaids and shop clerks? Preliminary interviews, one in person and one over the phone. However, while that victory has not yet improved our

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