Chair's Interview Guide

Hello,

As mentioned in our previous calls, here is a proposal for an chairs interview guide. It is not meant to be a strict questionnaire, but more of a frame for the interview.

I have tested the questions on a very willing guinea pig (Virginie), and they seem to be ok - could always be refined a bit but usable enough. Both Virginie and I are keen to interview a few chairs at TPAC.

The questions:

• Tell me about your WG(s). 
  (Clarification question: size, activity, history, specific challenges)
• How long have you been chairing the group?
• Do you have a weekly routine as group chair? Can you walk me through it?
• As group chair, what is your most repetitive task? 
• If you meet a newly appointed chair, not very well versed in the art, what anecdote would you tell him/her?
• What is is the most challenging part of your role as chair? [Make sure to follow up with a clarification, let them develop this.]
• What is the thing you learned as a chair, that you most wish you'd been taught earlier?
• Do you know about the chair's Guidebook? Have you ever used it? Was there anything in there you really found useful? (anything you'd like to improve?)

There are also a few "vanilla" questions which can be used to dive deeper into a given question, such as:
• Have you talked to other chairs about this?
• Did anyone help you with this?
• How did/do you (usually) deal with such a situation?

I reckon this would make for a 30-ish minutes conversation.

Next: choosing / calling for interview candidates. Maybe we can talk about this during our call today?

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Olicier