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Special Report: The Lost Art of Interviewing: How to Hire without Regret
By Cadence Group

Having the right people on your library team is critical. Hiring the wrong person for the job can diminish staff productivity, affect morale and damage the overall reputation of the library’s services. Although librarians understand better than those outside the library community what skills are necessary to deliver the best service and what personality traits are needed to keep productivity up and morale high,
they often do not know how to determine if other professionals have these qualities.

Generally, library professionals are not trained in the art of interviewing. However, most librarians, at some point in their career are required to interview someone.
This special report is a primer on interviewing techniques that will guide librarians through the interview process, suggest questions to ask and not to ask and present information on testing for library-specific skills.