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Preparing for tomorrow's interviews
Posted by Dave Bull on March 4, 2012 [Permalink]
While working on the image tracing these past couple of days, my mind has of course been busy with thoughts of the upcoming interviews. At present, four people are scheduled, two young men on Monday around noon, a young college girl on Monday evening, and another young lady (introduced by a Baren group printmaker from the Eastern US) on Tuesday noon.
I have no idea whether or not any of these people will seem suitable for these jobs or not, but we'll play that as it comes. I have already learned - from the experience hiring the printer trainees last summer - that the most difficult part of these interviews is trying to get across to these newcomers just what it is that they will be doing. For most jobs that they may have done in the past, it was probably pretty straightforward. But given that this place is so 'off-beat', it's not so simple.
And compounding the problem is the fact that what they will see when they are here - a messy, 'under construction', kind of strange place - is not what I want them to see. I want them to see the Mokuhankan that can come into being, if we get a good crew together, form a good game plan, and then execute it properly. I myself can see it clearly - the sort of thing I wrote about more than a year ago in this set of posts - but communicating this to other people is very very difficult.
So to help with this process, I made a simple kind of chart: one that shows the different projects going on here these days, positioned on a kind of timeline. This will help them understand as I talk about 'Where we have been', and try to explain 'Where we are going ...' And it's not just they who will get a clearer idea of the 'big picture' - putting this together helped me do so too! I have no colour printer here, so I'll run off a few copies of this tomorrow morning at the 7-11, and then use it during the interviews ...
Here's a .jpg image of the chart (click for an enlargement), or you can get the thing as a .pdf here.
(It is - I'm sorry - only in Japanese ...)
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