As a department chair opened an envelope with a faculty application inside, she was surprised to see several sticks of cinnamon chewing gum drop onto her desk. The application letter had a hand-written note at the bottom that said, "Please let the search committee have this gum as they review my application; I hope they will find it refreshing."
The chair assumed that the applicant thought that Louis Vuitton Altona GM the committee would view him as the "refreshing candidate." She chuckled to herself and thought, "Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have included a packet of nuts."
From unsolicited phone calls to pop-in visits to emails from VIP's in support of candidates, anyone who has served in the search process has experienced the "full court press," where the applicant tries to find every conceivable angle to stand out from the other applicants. Recently I heard of an applicant who sent an e-mail message to an academic vice president that was titled something like, "10 Reasons to Hire Dr. Anxious in 2010!" What most folks don't seem to understand is that such strategies serve to undermine an applicant's position, making them look needy at best and a little unbalanced at worst.
What is the hardest sell you've ever seen a candidate offer?
The chair assumed that the applicant thought that Louis Vuitton Altona GM the committee would view him as the "refreshing candidate." She chuckled to herself and thought, "Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to have included a packet of nuts."
From unsolicited phone calls to pop-in visits to emails from VIP's in support of candidates, anyone who has served in the search process has experienced the "full court press," where the applicant tries to find every conceivable angle to stand out from the other applicants. Recently I heard of an applicant who sent an e-mail message to an academic vice president that was titled something like, "10 Reasons to Hire Dr. Anxious in 2010!" What most folks don't seem to understand is that such strategies serve to undermine an applicant's position, making them look needy at best and a little unbalanced at worst.
What is the hardest sell you've ever seen a candidate offer?
When I was an undergraduate at Pomona
Chanel Black White CC College, I went to a presentation by a candidate for the English Department. Not content to read his poetry himself, he brought the actor Ed Ames to do it for him. We were trying hard not to laugh, snickering under our breathes. He didn't get the gig...
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As chair of a search committee seeking a chair for the Marketing Department, I received a series of plastic body parts (heart, thigh bone, . . . ) from a candidate who said that it demonstrated that he would give everything he had if he got the job. I had to call him and tell him that I got the idea, and to ask him to send no more body parts.