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For several weeks after I’d happily accepted EMU’s offer of a faculty
\nposition, the dmueller-edition Q&A recordings continued churning through my
\nportable MP3 player every so often. By then I found them somewhat
\nsilly-sounding, an off-key sequence of quirky, wandering think-alouds, something like little pacts
\nbetween me, my iPod Shuffle, and Kathryn Hume, whose
\n
\nSurviving Your Academic Job Hunt<\/a><\/i> was never out of reach from September
\nthrough late February. I finally removed the tracks after CCCC, more than
\na month after I no longer needed to listen to those droning loops of me
\nrehearsing 120-second answers. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Early on, I decided that I didn’t want to memorize answers, didn’t want my
\nresponses to interview questions to be too inflexible, robotic. I casually
\nplotted with a couple of other market-goers from my program about organizing a
\njam session in which we would quiz each other and bounce ideas around, but that
\nnever came together. It wasn’t that I felt on my own with the process,
\nexactly, but I did want practice<\/a>. That is,
\nI did<\/i> feel on my own with the task of familiarizing with the genre of
\n
\nthe interview answer<\/a>. It’s an important genre, it turns out, and it took me
\na little while to get used to how much I could say (well, completely) in under
\ntwo minutes, 2:30 tops. My program provided mock in-person and phone interviews, but I still thought I needed more practice.<\/p>\n

Sometime in late Octomber last year (ED: More like early Dissember, actually.), I plugged in a USB microphone, opened
\nAudacity<\/a>, sketched a list of
\nabout eight likely questions, cleared my voice, and asked, then answered each
\nquestion, recording one after the other until I had something like the dullest,
\ngeekiest album of all time: eight home-studio tracks of me asking typical job
\ninterview questions followed by me answering the question in under two minutes.
\n(Of note: I categorized the tracks as ‘jazz’ just to add pep). Rather than
\npolish them, re-record, or fret about the quality of the performances, I
\nimported the raw, uncut tracks in iTunes and slid them onto the shuffle, right
\nalong with the more or less stable collection I was at the time carrying to the
\nYMCA with me each day.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t have any idea whether other job seekers did the same thing.
\nNo clue. But I was pleased with what this approach allowed me to do.
\nI did not so much treat these questions and answers as focal and specific, which
\nis to say binding<\/i>, but I preferred instead to have them wash over me,
\ndeliberate, ambient noise very close to thinking, only slightly more measured.
\nI’d be at the Y, humming along on the elliptical machine, and one of the tracks
\nwould come on. The questions would spring up, as if out of nowhere, and surprise
\nme. The exact answer mattered, but it didn’t matter as much as getting the
\ngenre (that is the generality of the utterance) down, getting to know
\napproximately what was possible in such a time-bounded exchange. <\/p>\n

Who can say whether it worked? Or how well it worked? Well, I am
\nattesting to its convenience, for one thing. It was comfortable at MLA to
\nprop up my feet in the evening, mute some televised sporting event, and listen
\nto those forty minutes worth of questions and answers. And in public, it
\nfelt<\/i> a lot more hip than sitting, as others did, with scripted note cards
\nclenched in their trembling hands minutes before the elevator ride to destiny.
\nBeing on the market is tough (not scary, exactly, just intensive, demanding).
\nMay as well do as much of it as you can with headphones in. All the better
\nif the headphones are tied to a playlist as likely to land on something
\nspeedbeat funky as on a self-recorded practice question: Please, tell us
\nabout your dissertation<\/i>. Eventually the two start to blend together,
\nthe answers begin to have a faint cadence, something on the verge of musicality:
\nacademikocoapopfunkfusionbliss. And then you know it’s time to press pause, stow
\nthe ear buds away, and knock on the hotel room door (or answer the perfectly
\ntimed phone call, as the case may be).<\/p>\n

By the way, had I to do it over without a microphone, I would simply open a
\nDrop.io Voice account<\/a> and use my cell phone
\nto call in a couple of MP3 audio messages, download, import, etc. In fact,
\nwhat brought this entry on is that just a few minutes ago I was chatting on the
\nphone with a friend who will be on the market in the year ahead. Only, no
\nmike. I suggested the Drop.io Voice workaround. Also, about the
\nquestions, they were a mix: about the dissertation, about future plans for
\nresearch and writing, two about classes I’d taught, two more about classes I
\nwant to create, something on administrative experience, philosophy, and style,
\nanother about framing TA training and mentorship, and then something
\ndefinitional about new media and digital writing practices (their value, etc.).
\nThere are hundreds if not thousands of possible questions, but there’s not much
\nvalue, I’d argue, in overdoing it. Diminishing returns, if you overdo it.
\nI guessed that these few would get a lot of play, and, while some came up more
\nthan others, all of them came up at least once during the interviewing process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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