Document Type

Article

Abstract

A factor not often mentioned in advice to job hunters is that members of search committees may be looking for different types of candidates even with an agreed upon job description and may also have dissimilar views on the importance of the search. This article describes a role playing exercise that I devised to demonstrate this point in my management class. The five members of the search committee, each representing a librarian stereotype, must decide between two candidates with diametrically opposed skills. Candidates will learn that this factor means that no one set of qualifications may satisfy everyone on the search committee.

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Library Administration on January 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01930826.2015.1113066

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