I also agree with Joan. Ann
At 08:35 AM 6/18/01 EDT, Jack Robertson wrote:
>I agree with Joan.
>
>-- jack
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joan Benedetti [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:56 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: ArtDocComments
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>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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