{"id":213,"date":"2009-10-27T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-10-27T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:37:12","slug":"job-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2009\/10\/27\/job-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Job talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found out that when I gave my job talk at Oregon State University last year, I was being recorded. \u00a0I was hesitant to post it, but I hope that, despite this far-from-perfect performance, it might be useful to those on the job market this year. \u00a0Note that Oregon State is not a theory school. \u00a0I was talking to an audience of grad students and faculty, none of whom (except one) work in algorithms. \u00a0If I was giving a talk at a theory powerhouse, I probably would have targeted differently.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"495\"><param name=\"autoplay\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/web.engr.oregonstate.edu\/~dillonw\/planar_graphs.mov\" \/><embed type=\"video\/quicktime\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" src=\"http:\/\/web.engr.oregonstate.edu\/~dillonw\/planar_graphs.mov\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I broke a lot of standard rules in giving this job talk. \u00a0First and foremost, I did not practice it. \u00a0*gasp* \u00a0Practice would have removed a lot of my &#8220;um&#8221;s and &#8220;uh&#8221;s. \u00a0In my defence, when I practice a talk too much, I find it gets stale. \u00a0However, practicing it once from start-to-finish would have been a good idea. \u00a0In watching this talk (as painful as it is), I think the best thing I could have done was to tape myself once.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I climbed on a chair. \u00a0I was offered a laser pointer, but I hate laser pointers. \u00a0They are hard to keep steady and the point is very small and hard to see for the audience. \u00a0I find it about as useful as the speaker pointing to their laptop screen while they give a presentation. \u00a0So, at some point I wanted to point at something that too high for me, so I climbed on a chair.<\/p>\n<p>Another minor thing that I wish I would get in the habit of doing is <em>repeating an asked question. <\/em>Taking two seconds to summarize the question both confirms that you are answering the intended question and allows the entire audience to hear both the question and the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The slides for the talk are available for Keynote and Powerpoint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/talks\/designing-algorithms-for-planar-graphs-job-talk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found out that when I gave my job talk at Oregon State University last year, I was being recorded. \u00a0I was hesitant to post it, but I hope that, despite this far-from-perfect performance, it might be useful to those on the job market this year. \u00a0Note that Oregon State is not a theory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106178,1356,106190],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-planar-graphs","tag-talk","tag-tcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}