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Actions Speak Louder Than Resumes: How Performance-Based Interviews Facilitate Hiring the Best Library Candidates

This case study describes an academic library search committee's decision-making, practice, and assessment of using performance-based interviews as part of a national search for lecturer-level positions with a primary focus of reference and research services and minimal expectations of teaching information literacy in the classroom. The search committee determined performance-based interviews were successful in establishing candidates’ depth of skill in simulated reference transactions. The authors recommend incorporating an element of unscripted job simulation to employment interviews in libraries of all types.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:etsu-works-8911
Date01 January 2020
CreatorsTolley, Rebecca, Doucette, Wendy
PublisherDigital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
Source SetsEast Tennessee State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceETSU Faculty Works
Rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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