You approach a hotel door. You turn off your cell phone so it will not interrupt the interview. You hear voices inside and wonder whether to knock or not. You take one last glance at your cheat sheet for this university, and rap boldly on the door at the appointed hour. You shake hands with two or six people, and note the coffee urn and the awkwardly placed chairs. Your heart beats faster as you sit down.
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Hume, K. (2005). Conference Interviews. In: Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978929_2
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