John Strong; Communicating Through Career Transitions

John Strong, writing program administrator at a major Canadian university, has to decide whether he should accept an offer to interview for a new job as a business communications professor at one of the world's best schools of business administration. Although he had dabbled in the teaching of business communications while developing and running the university's writing program, he's not sure he has the experience even to interview for the position, let alone win the job and pursue it successfully. John knows almost nothing about the job requirements of the position and has little background knowledge of what being a business professor entails. He is interested in the interview, but not sure how to discover what he needs to know about the job in order to interview well. He's also not sure how to prepare for the interview - how to sell the experience he has in this new context.