[LM_NET] Interview, technology and bragging

["McLean, Lisa" <McLeanL@AIB.EDU>]

Five candidates were interviewed. I was in the 9:00 to 11:00 time along
with another female. The other time slot was 1:00 to 3:00. We had four
half-hour parts: team of teachers, superintendant, principals, and a
lesson that was videotaped as I taught fourth graders a lesson on
technology and library skills. At 4:28 a voice mail message said :"Your
interview was great, but we have gone another direction." I called and
thanked the principal who left the message and asked for tips on how I
could have done better. (I wonder how they made a decision in the time
between 3:00 and 4:28 if they had five half-hour videos to watch, confer
with each other, call references, contact the two candidates who got the
two jobs and call me.) He said: "The teacher team wanted you to brag
more-especially about technology." Has anyone else had something similar
happen? How does one brag-especially about technology during an
interview? I have taken tech. classes, am licensed, have an M.A., nine
years teaching/library experience, talked about software I use and an
online book club that I started, but it wasn't enough. Any ideas for
future interviews?

 

Thanks,

 

Lisa McLean, M.A.

Assistant Librarian

Tutoring Coordinator

AIB College of Business

mcleanl@aib.edu

 



 


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