On 10/23/07 3:12 PM, "David M. Porritt" <dporritt at smu.edu> wrote: > I think college administrators have to interview, check backgrounds, do their > do-diligence but I really have my doubts that any testing PTG could do would > do as well as a good college football scout can do and they miss a lot. Hi David, The problem is that there is no animal in the music department who is the equivalent of the college football scout. Who in your music department do you think qualifies as a good scout for piano technicians? And even if they actually know what to look for, where is the opportunity for them to witness a game or two in a real life analogy? (Okay, the candidate can come and do a tuning or something, but that doesn't say a lot, even if the ³scout² can evaluate it reasonably well). Not to say that the administrator doesn¹t need to do the normal due diligence in any case, checking recommendations, etc. But one of the problems we face is that the person usually doing the hiring has no concept of the skills needed, and has to rely almost entirely on a best guess of what references and experience set might mean. Probably doesn¹t really even know what questions to ask. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071023/2d30fb9e/attachment.html
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