May 2, 2010

Technology Brings the Search Committee Right to Your Living Room

Technology Brings the Search Committee Right to Your Living Room 1

Sarah Bones for The Chronicle

Julie Miller Vick, a career adviser at the U. of Pennsylvania, helps graduate students prepare for remote interviews by taping practice interviews and reviewing them with students.

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Sarah Bones for The Chronicle

Julie Miller Vick, a career adviser at the U. of Pennsylvania, helps graduate students prepare for remote interviews by taping practice interviews and reviewing them with students.

By Robin Wilson

This hiring season, search committees at many universities are not meeting job candidates face to face but talking to them remotely by telephone and videoconference.

As the technology becomes more popular, candidates are finding new twists in the hiring process. Some job hunters have found themselves talking to faculty search committees from a FedEx Office outlet, which offers videoconferencing for a fee. Others have had to find a place for the interviews on their own campuses, with