The interview experience was a good one. Coming up with a process with which to choose our questions was key! Once we had a way of gathering questions, we could easily focus on the importance of the questions and whether they served our purpose.
The discussion after the interview was the most enlightening to me. I discovered how one sided my view is. It was eye opening as to how narrow minded I was being. My initial reaction to the candidate was that she didn't "wow" me. I wouldn't hire her. As our team went through the questions one by one, I saw that she really did have some good answers and would probably be a good hire.
I think having been burned before as a member of an interview committee has made me feel a great amount of pressure in hiring just the right person. Three times, a committee I was part of hired what turned out to be very negative, self-serving imposters. As a result of these experiences, I am extremely cautious of a candidate who looks great on paper. All three of these "bad hires" in my past had almost impeccable records on paper. They had perfect graphs, schedules, and data. They made promises that never came true. They proclaimed their advocacy to students, commitment to being a team player, and ability to communicate effectively with parents. Those traits never came to be in any of those people.
The interview experience yesterday and today may have helped me be more lenient on my judgments. A work in progress for sure!
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