whether to make a tenure track faculty job talk interactive Is it appropriate to give a tenure track faculty job talk in an interactive way, like posing some questions, asking for audience opinions?
In the right circumstances you can. For example, if you are studying color vision and have worked on the dress it might make sense to poll what color people see as a way to highlight the ambiguity. I job talk I saw on the psychology of magic, involved magic tricks and breaking them down. It was useful. If you are going to interact, it really needs to be critical to the talk.