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LPTs for faculty phone/skype/zoom interviews (please add to!)

Remember you can have notes available and refer to them, but do not read significantly from them or appear to have something memorized. I would avoid preparing slides to show unless they are asked for, they often come across as cumbersome.

1. **When scheduling the call, ask who will also be on the call.** Look them up and know who they are and what research they do.
2. **Speak clearly and at a pace that can be understood.** You can ask if they can hear you clearly and ask them to speak up if you have trouble hearing them, but make sure you do so politely.
3. **Do not shadow your accomplishments, but do not be boastful**. If you have a publication in a significant journal or received impressive funding, mention it, but do not repeatedly mention it again and again. Bring up accomplishments that have occurred since your application, which can be done when contacted for the interview via email and/or during the call.
4. **Be patient if technical difficulties occur.** Do not be afraid to make idol chit chat if there is a delay where people are just sitting and waiting. How is the weather there?
5. **Concisely and succinctly explain your research** ***past***, ***present***, and ***future***.  Be able to discuss the significance and innovation of your research, what you specifically did, and what were the highlights of your results in 3-5 sentences each (1-2 minute/each). If you have several research projects, try and elaborate on the most appropriate or significant. Avoid a monologue going on for several minutes, people lose interest after a couple minutes and you want to make the call interactive, not one way. If they want to know more about your research, they can always ask.
6. **Be able to discuss and/or ask smart questions on the area, university, school/college (e.g. College of Engineering), and department/division**.
   1. For the geographical area, if it has resources nearby have some knowledge of that if applicable. Or even in casual chat that might occur know what there is to do nearby or discuss sports if that is a significant aspect of the university.
   2. Visit the university’s webpage and know what resources (e.g. core facilities, centers) they have that may help you. See if they have a strategic plan or focus areas they are looking to grow (e.g. cluster hires).
   3. Know what resources the school/college has that can help. Maybe they also have a strategic plan and areas they want to grow.
   4. Study the department/division and know who is in that unit, who does related research, what the common research areas are and especially who you could collaborate with. It is okay to want to collaborate with people outside the department/division, but you should know some in the division that you can work with. Know what classes they teach and where you would fit in that curriculum. Perhaps a course you could teach to add to the curriculum.
7. **Know the ad.** If the ad is specific for a research area, focus on that area of research and not solely on other areas of research. If they request specific things in the ad, let them know you met those criteria.
8. **Be able to explain why you are interested in the position** and if you are leaving a current position why you are interested in leaving.
9. **Be prepared for a behavioral question.**
   1. Tell me about a time when you handled a challenging situation?
   2. Tell me about a time when you made a mistake and how you handled it.
   3. Tell me about a time when you were in direct conflict with a peer and how was it resolved.
10. **Know what resources, generally, you would need to succeed.** An itemized list of the number of pipette boxes is not needed, but what big equipment or shared facilities would you need. Also, is there expertise that you would need in a certain area as a collaborator?
11. **Be able to answer questions showing the scope of your knowledge in your field.** For an applied field, what similar technology has been commercialized or is in start-ups? Know other individuals (maybe your advisor) who work in this area. How is this work unique from that? Where would you apply for funding?
12. If you are a coming out of your post doc, think about what **project your first student would do** and how you would help them to accomplish that project.
13. **Have questions prepared for the interviewers.**

* When you were looking at resources, was everything you need available? If not, ask about the ones you need. Or if they are there, ask for specifications (not too in depth unless the people on the phone use them).
* When will they get back to you? What is the schedule for on campus visits?
* For junior faculty, is there a formal mentoring program?
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If at all possible, use a wired connection.

Before the call happens, use your 'check video settings' feature to examine the frame to see if you're visually presenting yourself well--lighting, background scenery, etc.