Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

[Susana Pereira <susana pereira gmail com>]

Hello,

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
(...)
> Is this the "blessed" method of gathering questions? If so, we should
> publicise it some (desktop notes, pgo at least). I have added some questions
> to start it off.
>

Sounds great! Thank you for adding your questions, I will add the ones
I received via email.

I submitted a news topic to gnomedesktop.org but it not shown yet,
probably needs to be approved. Can somebody post to pgo? Thanks!

Cheers,

Susana



> I've added a few questions that attempt to be "STAR" type questions -
> hopefully others will like the technique as much as me & come up with even
> better ones.
>
> For some idea of what I'm talking about, the idea of STAR is to evaluate
> people based on actual past behaviour. Rather than phrasing questions "how
> would you...", you phrase them as "the last time you were in a similar
> situation, what did you...". You try to set up Situations or Tasks, get the
> Action which the person did in that situation, and evaluate the Result of
> the action (thus "STAR").
>
> Here are a couple of links:
> http://www.quintcareers.com/STAR_interviewing.html
> http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=1215
>
> Since I consider people skills, diplomacy and experience in non-profit type
> structures the most important skills, those are the questions I asked.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
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