Interview Question

Describe your current line of research and explain its clinical relevance. What aspects of your research are innovative?
What do you believe is a researcher's obligation for dissemination of results?
What experience and success have you had in acquiring research grant support?
What research equipment, personnel, and supply requirements do you have?
Describe the courses you have taught by summarizing the course content and assignments required.
Explain how you grade students' written work. How have you handled conflicts with students over grades and assignments?
How would you handle an episode of academic misconduct?
Define "integrity" and explain at least two ways that you have demonstrated this trait in your research and teaching.
How have your prior jobs contributed to your professional skills and attitude?
Why are you interested in a position at this university?
What strengths and expertise will you contribute to our department?
In what ways do you feel you can lend support to your colleagues?
List three areas of weakness that you wish to improve on.
How will you be a role model for our students? In your opinion, what personal and professional traits are desirable for mentoring students?

Professor Job Description

Professors' responsibilities are typically divided between teaching, research, and service.
The teaching responsibilities are the most visible: learning the material (this can take years, especially for some upper level courses), keeping up to date with current advances in both research and pedagogy, choosing an appropriate textbook, preparing lectures, supervising teaching assistants, grading, etc.
Research activities involve solving problems that were previously unsolved. These activities are more difficult to describe. Most professors have one or more areas in which they are experts. Part of the job is to keep up with current research activities in their areas of expertise. This includes reading journal articles, attending conferences, and staying in touch with other researchers in their field. It is sometimes as hard - and as important - to find the right questions to ask as it is to answer them. Problems that have been solved are written up in the form of an article and submitted to an academic journal for publication. The editors of the journal send the submission to experts (referees) for their opinion about whether the article deserves to be published. If published, the authors get a pat on the back.
Service activities involve serving on various committees at the Department (e.g., the undergraduate program committee which evaluates the courses we require for majors and minors), College, Campus (e.g., the Liberal Education Committee, which evaluates the courses students must take in order to gain sufficient "breadth" in their education), and the University of Minnesota system. They also perform service activities to the "academic community," such as organizing conferences, editing and refereeing for journals.
Job Specification

Applications will be judged only against the criteria which are set out below. Applicants should make sure that their application shows very clearly how they believe that their skills and experience meet these criteria. XYZ university is committed to fairness, consistency and transparency in selection decision, and unsuccessful applicants may request feedback against the published selection criteria for the specific post. (We are, however, unable to provide general advice about the suitability of applicants’ CVs for future vacancies in Oxford or elsewhere.) Chairs of selection committees (known as electoral boards) will be aware of the principles of equality of opportunity and fair selection and there will be a member of each gender wherever possible.
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following: RequirementThe postholder must be able to demonstrate: | ESSENTIAL orDESIRABLE | ASSESSED BY: | The ability to contribute effectively to ensuringthe long-term development of the subject, andto maintaining interest in the subject and its wide recognition outside. | Essential | presentation,interview | Commitment to providing effective teaching atundergraduate and postgraduate level. | Essential | presentation,interview | The ability to manage a substantial researchteam, to train, guide and motivate researchstudents and junior colleagues. | Essential | application,interview | Experience of university governance andmanagement, and of academic administration. | Desirable | application, interview | Substantial international reputation inscholarship and research, and excellentpublication record in international journals andselective conferences, in the field ofalgorithms. | Essential | application, interview |