Mock Interviews

The Graduate Placement Committee will be holding mock interviews Dec. 10-12. Schedule an interview with a panel of Pitt faculty, who will read your materials and interview you just as if you were at MLA. This is a great way to get your feet wet in a friendly, helpful environment. Be
sure to schedule an interview even if you haven't heard back from jobs--real MLA interview requests often come at the last minute!

If you'd like to do an interview, send your availability during the following times to Ryan McDermott:

M, Dec. 10, 9:30-12:30
T, Dec. 11, 9:30-12:30
W, Dec. 12, 1:30-4:30

Also, please send along your job letter (teaching or research), your dissertation abstract, your teaching statement, and any information about jobs that have shown interest in you, or in which you are especially interested. Faculty members will use these to prepare interview questions. Interviews will last 20-30 min., followed by time for feedback.

Please send your availability by this Fri., Nov. 30.

Job interviewing workshop

Today's job interviewing workshop with Lily Saint, Dan Morgan, and Ryan McDermott is available in mp3 format. This includes a mock mock interview and analysis (starting around 43 min.). The accompanying handout is available to the Pitt community.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-kLdDKqGoF_bzJ1U1daVmhOb0U

Job Interview workshop this Thursday

Job seekers are encouraged to attend a workshop and Q&A on preparing for job interviews this Thur., 11/8, 2:30-4 pm in CL 527, with Dan Morgan, Lily Saint, and Ryan McDermott.

The department schedules mock interviews at the end of the fall semester to help prepare students for job interviews. The mock interview is an invaluable opportunity to practice your interview skills, but how should you prepare for it? What kinds of questions should you expect, and how can you make the best use of the feedback you receive from your mock interviewers? This is your opportunity to learn more about the interview process in general, and to begin preparing yourself for the real thing.  Don’t wait until you know whether or not you have interviews: come to the session and schedule mock interviews, it will only help!

The session will include a mock mock interview: come cheer on and conduct a post mortem on Ryan McDermott as he interviews for a job in composition and film studies, with subspecialties in medieval literature and digital humanities, with a dissertation entitled "From Orality to Home Theater to iTunesU: A Medieval Studies/RhetComp/Film History Approach to MOOCs."