On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I humbly
assert that this process (many Wikipedians, face to face, in a
pub in London) breaks any modern standards of the selection process
(e.g. all candidates being asked the same set of questions).
Actually, I think it's fairly standard to do things this way. The
interview-in-a-pub technique is very well known, and it's perfectly
normal to have candidates for senior jobs meet the people they would
be working with before any final decisions are made. I don't see a
problem with merging the two.
We did do something similar when we interviewed Pavel Richter, WMDE's
executive director. I think it can be useful in gauging some sense of
compatibility between candidates and the people they might have to work
with. At the same time, it would be prudent not to overestimate the value of
this particular method since you're not hiring a manager to manage
Wikipedians but someone to manage your chapter's staff.
Best regards,
Sebastian
President
Wikimedia Deutschland