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:. Interview Questions for Job Candidates  || by Ethan H. Decker ||
GENERAL
1. Why are you applying to UNM?
2. What are the potential drawbacks of UNM for you?
3. How do you label yourself professionally?

RESEARCH
4. What are the important open questions in your field?
5. When aunt Mabel asks what you do, what do you tell her?
6. What's not in your seminar (past, present, or future work)?
7. What do you see yourself doing in the next 1-3 years (what are you going to hit the ground running with) and why?
8. What are your ideas for grants?
9. What's your vision 15-20 years from now?  including
     a. Questions you address and how you address them
     b. Your lab setup (equipment, # of postdocs, techs, grads, undergrads)
     c. Ideal ratio of teaching / research / service

TEACHING
10. What's your philosophy for teaching undergrads?
11. And for mentoring grads?
12. What courses would you want to teach?
13. What do you think can be done to make large lecture courses more interesting and relevant?

OTHER
14. What makes a lab good?
15. What's not in your file that you'd like us to know? (publications, research/postdoc, teaching, grants, other)
16. What are your hobbies?
17. What do you want to know about from us?  (grad life, degree program, money, startup, courses, facilities, programs, libraries, collaboration, UNM, New Mexico, faculty, undergrads, etc)


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