academics: what's the most useless thing you've been made to do for a job application

@e.voss.writes+141

I have written eleven teaching philosophies and I could not tell you what mine is.

@walt_crosswordguy+132

The five year plan. Nobody has ever once read one and nobody's five years went that way.

@owenf_64square+118

not an academic but the fact that "teaching philosophy" is a document you write and not a thing you demonstrate is funny to me

@h_pruitt_genealogy+109

In my day it was a letter and a list of publications. I'm not saying that was better. It was shorter.