I have been applying out to places for a while now, but this morning I had my first telephone interview. I don’t want to talk about it until I hear something official, but I can be unspecific and say that I think I did a good job. I have never really been extensively interviewed over the telephone: it was a 45 min interview.
In retrospect I felt like I said a lot, and was able to put forward my philosophy of service and professional practice. They asked me about 10 or 12 questions–after that I was so worried, because we had scheduled 45 mins and it had only been about 25 or 30. But, I had a lot of questions and we talked a bit about them, so I actually think we went about 5 minutes over time.
I have this particular philosophy of teaching, and of reference service, and although I know I have certain beliefs, it is exciting to actually express them in words. One of the best questions in the interview was “Name a book which has changed your outlook in the last year” or something. I named Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is such a wonderful book, and it has change my outlook and my general interactions with students.
I am really looking forward to just getting out there and helping people, being active, working on projects. Let’s just hope this comes through in the next week and I can talk about how excited I am about this position.
