Joan Benedetti wrote:
>
> Dear Mr. Ditchburn:
>
> OK. You've scared me. I shouldn't have said publicly that your job
> rejections may have had to do with your personality--and I do apologize. For
> anyone on ARLIS-L that had any doubt, you are correct--I have never met you.
> I based my assumption entirely on your written comments and this may have
> been unfair.
>
> However, I take strenuous issue with your implication that personality should
> not be a consideration in the hiring process. It is always a consideration
> in any job anywhere, indeed, throughout life in any relationship anywhere.
> To deny this is at best naive. This does not mean that one is hired "on the
> basis of personality (or 'attitude') rather than knowledge." Of course,
> knowledge of the appropriate subject fields, education within those fields
> (i.e., degrees in librarianship and relevant subject fields as well as
> appropriate internships), and prior experience all come into play in the
> hiring process. But woe to the employer who hires someone without regard to
> their ability to interact positively with people--library staff, faculty,
> curators, general public, students, whoever one's clientele will be. Yes, I
> DO want my surgeon and my lawyer and my garage mechanic to have "good
> personalities." Even if all I wanted from them was their knowledge, their
> ability to communicate that knowedge (and to hear my problem) can be grossly
> impaired by that complex entity I flippantly referred to as "personality." I
> bet this is true even amongst Classics scholars.
>
> Joan Benedetti
>
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Thanks, Joan Benedetti. I will consider this Armistice Day.
Gary Ditchburn
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