theorywatch

I’ve now had the opportunity to serve on five search committees in the roughly four years that I’ve been here: one for director of the School, one for director of the OU-Tulsa library, two for faculty appointments, and one for a librarian appointment.

A piece of advice: don’t, don’t, don’t list one of your own former classmates as a reference unless you have been out of grad school for at least 20 years (and the classmate has become the Librarian of Congress, or whatever.)

It just always looks as though you couldn’t find anyone else to recommend you.