Hold ‘Em - A Card Shark’s Guide to
On-Campus Job Talks (Winter 2007)
Hold ‘Em - A Card Shark’s Guide to On-Campus Job Talks (Winter 2007)
RULES
Each player is dealt 40 minutes and 7 questions; whoever admits least ignorance about the area about which they’ve been studying for the last 10 years wins.
Don’t Look Like A Dope—
KNOW YOUR LINGO!
bullets: balding professors
fishhooks: air quotes with
clawlike rigor mortis
cowboys: good guys in the movies,
bad guys in real life
the flop: your talk, unfortunately
the river: after the flop; also known
as ‘the roof’ or, locally,
‘the back bay’
COMMON “TELLS”