Anyone who works in academia knows how exhausting---and often absurd---the interview process for a tenure track position can be, both for hopeful job hunters and hiring committees.

9 Interviews" provides --you guessed it---9 interviews with academia hopefuls, and gives an often humorous, always insightful look at what it's like trying to break into the ivory tower:

Our main goals with the films were to make people laugh, demystify the tenure-track hiring process a bit, and take pressure off ourselves and other job seekers. 9interviews was intended to good-humoredly agitate for change to entrenched practices of sorting, judging, and hiring academic workers.

When you tell anyone outside the academy that the process of getting a tenure-track job takes six to eight months, and that you can only apply for jobs once a year, they respond with disbelief. In addition, the multitude of anxiety-producing steps that comprise "going on the market" in academia each have their own brands of absurdity.Posted by Rhys Alexander