Staff Applications

[Strategos]

I was looking on another forum today, and I was thinking. This forum, as well as Wikipedia, when hiring staff (admins on WP), gives example scenarios to applicants, such as asking moderators how they would handle situations. I was thinking that this was a good policy, and I wanted to suggest it to TDN staff as well.

 

 

Some example questions might be:

 

News Staff

You see a site copying word for word news without credit that you posted on the TDN main site. What would you do?

 

Moderator

A member with a long good behavior history has recently been acting inflammatory to other users. How would you handle this situation?

Suggested answer: PM the user to find out what has happened recently, then take action if necessary.

 

And so on, and so forth.

[Xepha]

I'm not exactly sure how this would be helpful... when people apply, they have to describe their qualification or provide a sample of work. Also, anyone hired is in probation and trained by the head of department. Staff also have a code of conduct to follow.

[Strategos]

I understand that. However, this might help screen applicants faster. For example, an applicant for moderator might prove that they know all the rules, but if you can spot a problem with that applicant, such as being extremely too harsh/lenient, then you wouldn't have to put the applicant on trial at all.

[Ian]

Hi there! Thank you for this suggestion. In all honesty, I haven't thought of doing it this way before and we may consider doing this in the future whenever we go on a "hiring spree." ;)

 

Thanks again! b) Let us know if you have any more suggestions.

[BlackJaguar]

Well, Sir Ian can add those to the questions... though just like what Xepha say, everyone who gets hired gets on a training session so they would know how to solve such situations...