A New Look At An Old Problem
Posted on November 26th, 2005
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
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