Hurried notes from job-search land
- I had a phone interview today! Hopefully the head cold that’s been with me since this weekend didn’t make my voice too nasal. And another phone interview for a different job is coming up in a few weeks.
- The great thing about iPods is that you can make up a playlist for every occasion. In the job-hunting playlist I’ve put together: "Straight to the Top" by Tom Waits; "Opportunities" by the Pet Shop Boys (refrain: "I’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks, / Let’s make lots of money!"); "Hang On Little Tomato" by Pink Martini (despite the fact that it’s about a tomato destined for ketchup, I still find it reassuring); and "My Wandering Days are Over" by Belle and Sebastian, because I’m hoping this will be an end to my wandering days, at least for a while.
- This advice is well put. I served on a search committee myself, once, and am studiously avoiding doing any of the things that led us to automatically nix some of the candidates. Not that I would ever have e-mailed my resume to fifty different libraries without even bothering to send out the e-mails separately, like one guy did. (And then there was the candidate who had obviously written a generic cover letter and done a mail-merge to add the relevant library names and job titles. We tossed his application, too.)
- If I seem a bit preoccupied in the coming weeks, well, now you know why.
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