Legal Research

When you're hunting for a job and you've applied for positions in diverse locations, you'll usually end up doing some phone interviews.  I participated in my first phone interview when I began applying for law librarian jobs in 2005, and it surprised me how tough they are to do well.  I've since participated in phone interviews as a search committee member, and I'm always surprised that some candidates seem completely unprepared for the phone interview and make basic mistakes, like taking the phone call in a noisy place or typing while they talk to interviewers (yes, we can hear you typing!).  Valerie Fontaine and Roberta Kass have written some solid phone interview tips for law.com, and they're worth reviewing if phone interviews might be in your future.