The focus of the “SACandidEx” series is to share stories about the on-campus interview. In this post, the author reflects on two different on-campus interviews and sees[...]

If you are anything like me, you’d heard the phrase “student affairs is such a small world” approximately three million times. Many of us have sat in the waiting areas of TPE or ot[...]

The on-campus interview. You’ve made it past the Placement experience, phone interview, the Skype interview, and now you’ve been invited on-campus. Congratulations!?!  I recently c[...]

Late last semester, I popped into my director’s office to ask him a question and struck up a conversation with one of his student employees, Doug*. Doug and I talked a little bit a[...]

The first time I ever used Google Hangout was for a first round admissions job interview. It was spring of my last semester of grad school and I was deep into a very regional job s[...]

Our first three posts have highlighted positive on-campus interview experiences. In this post, we shift focus and explore a less-than-ideal experience as an internal candidate. The[...]

As a para-professional, working in my graduate assistantship and completing my Masters in Higher Education, I had been flooded with welcomed tips on how to ace the on-campus interv[...]

Late June marked the completion of my job search. My last day at the institution I was serving was June 20th, and as the date loomed, I was still awaiting the calls of a few prospe[...]

“Congratulations! We’d like to invite you to campus as a finalist in our selection process.” That single sentence typically sets off a chain reaction of events and emotions, from e[...]

In student affairs the on-campus interview can carry a lot of weight for the candidate and the employer; tremendous amounts of time, energy, and money have gone into the process. F[...]