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Subject: Re: Interview questions -- Linda Newborn
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:12:46 -0400
From: Jerri Swinehart <swinehar@OAKLAND.EDU>

        Here at Oakland I have to write up selection criteria for each
position I fill. Selection criteria are things like: Ability to solve
complicated problems with multi-step processing. My interview questions
need to demonstrate and measure each such criteria. So my interview
questions include questions like: Tell me what you know about the
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd edition. (This is a cataloging
interview question). When I've done ALL my interviews, I sit down and
weight the importance of each of the selection criteria. So for example,
I
might give a weight of 15 to one dealing with past library experience.
Then I would look at the answer to the interview question dealing with
library experience. In the most recent interview, I decided that there
were five sections to a library (Circulation, Reference, Serials,
Acquisitons, Interlibrary Loan, and Cataloging). Then I looked at the
answer to the library experience interview question and gave 3 points
for
every section of the library an interviewee had worked in. Someone who
worked in all five got 15 points.
        Does this answer the question?

        Jerri Swinehart
        Manager-Technical Services
        Oakland University
        Kresge Library
        Rochester, Michigan 48309-4401
        swinehar@oakland.edu
        (248)-370-2478

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