Skype interviews are not going away

Credit: Prof. David Cahill

Via Jeff Moore on Twitter, a fantastic presentation by Prof. David Cahill of UIUC's Department of Material Sciences and Engineeering on his thoughts on faculty hiring. If you're a faculty candidate, you should really read the whole thing.

I'm still bothered by the rise in Skype interviews (you can't tell me that you're not influenced by staring at someone's face for 30 minutes on a screen), but I think they are here to stay (and have been for ~5 years now.)

It will be interesting to think about what kind of second- and third-order effects this change will have on the job market....