I may be the only blogger who has not publicly offered advice to potential law professors about navigating the Meat Market. I do not think I can add much to that discussion that has not already been said on these pages and elsewhere, but I did want to post best wishes to those who are making the trip to the Wardman Park Marriott this week.
The experience can be terribly nerve-racking, owing both to the importance of each interview and the fact that a slip-up can cost the applicant the job that he or she wants. (I made a couple blunders in initial interviews that still make me cringe whenever I remember them, as I’m doing now.) I’d like to give the typical advice of “relax, and be yourself,” but I know that I would certainly not follow such advice. I suspect that my blunders would have been even more plentiful and severe if I tried to relax (though perhaps I give off an aura of up-tightness by not relaxing), and being oneself seems not as effective a strategy as being the person one wants to be.
Whatever your strategy, however, best of luck. Soon you’ll be giving advice to people who are in the shoes you’re now wearing.
Posted by Michael Dimino on November 2, 2006 at 02:36 PM