new in my life

I haven't posted here for a long time. The main reason is that about 10 months ago, such an important event happened that I devoted an entirely new blog to describing it: my first pregnancy and the subsequent delivery of my beautiful son, "VJ" on October 7.

I'm back now though, because I'm busy doing something that I want/need to keep notes on, but my "baby in progress" blog is not the right place to do it: I'm...

... starting a career search and preparing for job interviews.

So based on my preps for interviews coming up in a few days, I have been referring to a UCLA Career Center site that has lots of useful links to preparing for job interviews (be they phone, conference, or campus visit interviews).
But some of those links are no longer valid. Also, I've been conducting my own search and found additionally useful links that I want to keep track of here.

Also, if I have time, I will try to summarize my own individual experience, including personal advice and notes that I accumulating during the process. For now the additions will be pretty unorganized and unstructured, but bear with me. Hopefully I might organize them sooner or later... Unfortunately, some of these links are password protected on the Chronicle of Higher Ed... but moving on:

+ The Academic Job Search Handbook by Mary Heiberger and Julia Vick of UPenn Career Services
+ "The First Interview" insights from a veteran interviewer, Steven M. Cahn
+ job search experience of a grad student in history.
+ asking the right questions at interviews.
+ "AHA Interviews, redux"
+ Advice from the AHA itself on "Successful Strategies for Interviews at the Annual Meeting"
+ More "Interviewing Strategies" by Melanie Gustafson from the AHA
+ "Advice on Surviving the Job Register," the AHA Job Search/Hiring Center at its annual conference.