Hiring Committees

I'm on a couple of hiring committees right now at work, and I have to say--I wish I had been on some hiring committees before I was applying for jobs back in the day. This isn't to say that I'm unhappy with my job. Far from it. Rather, I think I would have been much more successful as an applicant if I'd had the chance to look at a bunch of other applications. Go figure. As it is, I consider myself lucky to have had everything work out as it has.

You see things differently when you're one of t...