Anti-Climacus

Good-ish academic job market advice: don't be yourself. To the extent that this means "do not be the version of yourself that manifests all your neuroses," it's not very helpful advice. If life hasn't taught you how to do that yet, the job market's not going to help. To the extent that the advice is "project a confident image," that's helpful except to the extent that getting any interest from anyone is rare these days, which tends to ramp up the pressure to present oneself in the best possible light to the hiring department.