Along with Major League Baseball’s post-season, October brings academic philosophy’s job hunting season. I could spend my time lamenting how few jobs there will be this year, how I may never find a permanent tenure-stream position, or how the APA should have a more efficiently designed website. Doing so, however, is such a waste of time and energy that I find it self-defeating to have even written the sentences above. Instead, I would prefer to focus my efforts on becoming a better candidate. Because much ink (liquid and digital) has been spilled on topics like writing samples, recommendation letters, application letters, APA and on-campus interviews, I want to comment on an area largely under-explored by the blogging and academic community:Skype interviews. (There’s been useful discussion about recommendations for Skypeinterviews elsewhere, see careerbuilder.com and time.com. In some ways, I will be echoing their views.)
Recommendations for Skype interviews
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