3/3/2005

Imagining terrible questions on future job interviews

Filed under: — Aprille @ 4:58 pm

In this particular job that I have, I often have to interview people for other jobs (my minions, I call them). Like just about every other awful job interview, we ask the “what are your greatest strengths and weaknesses” question. We word it a little differently, but that’s what it boils down to. Sometimes I think about how I would answer that question if I were in the interviewee’s shoes.

Meetings I’ve had this week have helped me firm up that answer. I am not a details-oriented person. I seriously need an assistant to help me keep track of things. I’m much more of a big idea, big picture, big excitement kind of person. For example, today at this high-profile meeting full of stakeholders from all over campus, I was all prepared to talk about all the work I’ve been doing as the lead of the Organizational Architecture team, which is considerable. I’ve done a lot of research about the way the the university org structure works, how we will or will not mirror it in ICON (our suite of course management system and integrations), where exceptions lie, all that. I’ve built a provisional org structure on the remotely hosted testing system and I’m working on one in the testing system. I’m developing distributed administrator rights and assigning them, and helping coordinate training for distributed administrators and migration of legacy sites.

Naturally, none of this stuff came up at the meeting. But you know what did? The fact that I forgot the promotional pens.

*sigh*

Weekend? Now?

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