team applications

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by bhsrobotics1671

The Bird Brains go through an application process for their leadership positions.

This year 1257 instituted a similar process. The 2014-15 leadership met with our lead mentor to tweak our organizational structure and clarify some positions and responsibilities.

We then announced to the team the positions available and distributed applications, which asked a few questions such as why they want to fill that role, why they are qualified, and what scheduling conflicts might they have.

All applicants are then pulled aside during the next couple meetings and interviewed by the departing senior officers and our lead mentor. Here we asked more in-depth questions. There are pre-prepared questions for each position that press a bit deeper into their qualifications, their plans for filling the role, their past experience in the club, and some content-based questions to ensure competency in that area. If anyone would like to see these questions, shoot me a PM. We also ask impromptu questions on these topics and address any concerns about their candidacy.

The interviewing team would then meet and deliberate, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each candidate. Each of us would select which candidates we believe should hold the positions, and make recommendations and defend them to our lead mentor, who made the final decision. We found our process to work quite well for our team, which has had issues with elections for officers in the past.