October 23, 2010

I thought the iirc question/job model assignment today was taxing on the brain. However, I did find it helpful to look at the data from a specific school to come up with legitimate elements to focus on for the hiring of new staff. I'm interested to find out if my building administrators actually use a model like this as thier approach to determining staffing needs. My guess is, that even though they have a pretty good idea of the needs, it's more of a nebulous "feeling" about the needs and qualifications, versus a planned description of need based on data. This project was taxing and time-consuming, but I do believe it is a strategy I will use as an administrator because it uses data to support or defy a "hunch" and the building ends up with a much more specific hiring target and questions than I've seen in the hiring committees in which I've been involved.