Bringing The Network to a Job Interview
I don’t know if this has been done before, but I plan to invite “The Network” to a job interview. I will be using Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Presentations to design my presentation and present with attendees in the chat room. I will be interviewing on Friday, October 5th between 2:00 and 3:00 PM PST. My presentation is only 10 minutes, and I do not know when it will be delivered within that time frame. I hope to find a handful of Twitucators to sign in and hang out and backchannel. I was asked to speak on how I would implement an expanded Distance Learning plan for the college. My goals with this experiment are to:
- Easily design a presentation that is hosted online with little effort
- Demonstrate a potential Distance Learning tool
- Show the value of The Network
If you are interested in supporting me, please set up a Google account, if you don’t have one already, and visit http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=d89zt3t_0dvtcps between 2 and 3 PM PST on October 5th. Feel free to discuss the slides, hopefully in a positive way! Right now, I am still working on the presentation and you are welcome to give feedback.
There are many potential problems:
- No audio so the attendees won’t know what I’m talking about. I will try to make the slides as clear as possible.
- Presentation is only 10 minutes long, so I may not have time to interact with the chat room.
- Since I am openly publishing this, my competitors for the position could sabotage my presentation.
- Technology may not work. I’m always prepared for this, because it’s quite common in the tech business!
- Out of control chat.
I thank you in advance for your participation!
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Jen,
I’m excited to see how this turns out. With only 10 minutes I suspect the best case is that you can demonstrate how easily you can tap into an online learning network, which is sure to be an asset to the organization. I highly doubt #4 will happen, but certainly that risk is the flip side of such openness. I, for one, applaud your risk taking.
-Mark
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Thanks, Mark! I should have linked to your blog since you suggested it to me!
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:33 am
[...] injenuity » Blog Archive » Bringing The Network to a Job Interview Jen is taking “the network” to her job interview. I’m excited to see how this turns out, and as I said in the comments, I applaud her risk taking.
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October 3rd, 2007 at 2:36 am
I would recruit a chat captain to monitor the chat room and perhaps deal with any “trouble” or at the least maybe facilitate a discussion on a particular topic. If you leave the chat room just open, yeah, it’s a chat room. If you give the chat room a topic, such as “What does the future of distance education hold in light of the new free web 2.0 tools cropping up”, then you might get a solid discussion that might interest your folks, and you are a leader instead of reacting to the chat room.
And yes, nice job with this idea! Keep us posted!
Yours
Chris Craft
http://www.crucialthought.com
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:12 am
Thanks, Chris! I do have one person committed now, who can keep an eye on the chat. I am also going to include a section on each slide for the “backchannel.” If I have time, I will provide audio! If not, I will just include some extra text for discussion. I’m trying to think of it as if I were teaching a DL class. That way I can model what I’m preaching!