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Editorial
. 2019 Jul 25;15(7):e1007163.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007163. eCollection 2019 Jul.

Ten simple rules for giving an effective academic job talk

Shayna A Sura  1 , Lauren L Smith  1 , Monique R Ambrose  1 , C Eduardo Guerra Amorim  1 , Annabel C Beichman  1 , Ana C R Gomez  1 , Mark Juhn  1 , Gaurav S Kandlikar  1 , Julie S Miller  1 , Jazlyn Mooney  2 , Riley O Mummah  1 , Kirk E Lohmueller  1 , James O Lloyd-Smith  1
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Editorial

Ten simple rules for giving an effective academic job talk

Shayna A Sura et al. PLoS Comput Biol. .
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Fig 1. Depth of content throughout the talk.
You want to start broad during the introduction to get everyone on board and then go into more depth on a few specific studies, including some “deep dives” to show off expert knowledge. Finally, you want to conclude your talk on a broad scale similar to your introduction. The dashed lines indicate flexibility in how many specific studies you incorporate into your talk, based upon your own research portfolio.
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