How to Give an Amazing Academic Job Talk or Teaching Demo | Dr Echo Rivera

Tips for your academic job talk or teaching demo for your upcoming faculty interview campus visit. Click on "SHOW MORE" below to find out all the info you need to know:

I'll share tips and strategies for each stage of the academic job talk or teaching demo process: (1) your workflow and preparation, (2) your slides, and (3) delivering your job talk/teaching demo successfully. This video is made specifically for folks in #HigherEducation who are planning on doing an academic job talk (research talk) or teaching demo in the near future.

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If you're like most academics, scientists, evaluators, and researchers that I work with, you probably want to learn how to nail your academic job talk or teaching demo, and avoid delivering a #DeathByPowerpoint. This is one of the most important presentations of your career, so it's important that you do this well. Should you use PowerPoint? Should you write a script? Should you use humor in a job talk? These are all questions that I'll answer in this video, plus a lot more! #DrEcho

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[beverleykatherine]

Literally watching this two days before my job talk 😅😅😅 thankfully a lot of these things I've already done but this is very helpful. I especially appreciated the point about what the purpose of the talk is. Thank you!

[sigstatistics]

Just a helpful reminder. The tips and tricks for dealing with procrastination are excellent for neurotypicals but not so much for the neuro-divergent folk. If you are neuro-divergent and need advice on this or related topics I would seek out YouTube channels specifically focused on or devoted to the neuro-divergent population.

[timothypage]

1. An agenda that outlines who they will be meeting with.
2. Who will attend the presentation? Faculty from within the department or also faculty from other departments within the College/University? Will there be students attending?
3. Will the Dean attend?
4. Should you take questions during the talk itself or save until the end for a Q&A?
5. Setup of the room- will I be sitting or standing?
6. How much should the "job talk" focus on one piece of research vs. presenting a more holistic description of skills/experience in research & teaching.


Also that was a great point about not using something like Prezi because the computer they provide might not support that particular program. I had a student use Prezi for a class presentation and it did not work. I was furious! I asked for PowerPoint!

[melihaslan]

I am glad you also give comments based on research references. Thanks!!!

[jersuscolmenares]

I don’t know if you still check reactions in this post, but I wanted to say thank you for such a great video. What a combination of super helpful ideas, humor, and wisdom. I appreciate your generosity.

[curiosophy]

made it to the end. i have just had a teaching demo! thanks for this

[suzannenobel]

I asked for more specific info to prepare for my demo and the only info I got was high school and I asked what topic to address in English Grammar and I got told "just a simple demo." I don't have 8 weeks. I only got 4 days to prepare.

[yamilavivi]

I found this so helpful! I will reach out for your job talk services in the future.

[yewang]

Thanks for your video! It is really helpful. I get my job with my first job talk after watching your video. :)

[emmanuelameyaw]

When my school asked me to be TA after my undergrad and also after my masters, no one asked me of teaching demo.😂😂. They just said, you wanna be TA for this course...I said yes and that was it. I hadn't held a tutorial class before...and nobody cared. I guess the demand for TAs exceeded supply.😂. There are now 100 applications for a faculty role...so you need a demo lesson to get the job.:)

[meganleece]

Thanks Echo - another great video. Other important questions to ask the committee especially for teaching demos (if not already made clear): is the audience undergrad or graduate-level? Is there an expectation that the audience has had some background in this area before?

[ProfessorALopez]

I got invited with one weeks notice!! 8 weeks? how? I didnt know the topic I was teaching until 5 days before. just how?

[ivandalegundran]

Thank you for this, Dr! Amazing vid! I hope you get more students on your paid course!

[nuwan]

Thank you very much for sharing some valuable information.

[endalkachewabebe]

I have got very important lesson on this video. Thank you for sharing your experiances

[AlexCio]

And it's important to repeat it over and over again, to prepare well! :)

[moladeosibodu]

This is helpful. Thanks! I loved the Schitts Creek GIFs :-)

[sarahceballos]

I didn't hear or see anything of what we're supposed to actual include in a teaching demo...can you clarify that please?

[TheCoolManJones]

There is good info in here but could be cut down to 10-15 minutes. The remainder is just advertisements for other videos and promoting consulting work.

[pranjalisingh]

that was quite a detailed one...really helpful.