Nick--out of curiosity, what do you define as "exiting badly" or "exiting
well?"  (from both the employer and employee perspective)

Also, I'm in favor of the writing sample issue being used as a cue to
determine the candidate's general level of good judgment...but would never,
ever consider that the sole reason to hire or not hire that candidate.  It's
one of many elements that can be used to assess the appropriateness of this
candidate for the position.  Most museum jobs require a lot of writing but
the context of that writing is important:  if the candidate cannot
differentiate between scholarly writing and general-audience writing as
appropriate to the position s/he is interviewing for, then I would have
serious reservations on whether that candidate "gets" what is expected of
him/her in that position.  At a certain level, you can't teach that.

Julia Muney Moore
Director of Exhibitions and Artist Services
Indianapolis Art Center
820 E. 67th St.
Indianapolis, IN  46220
(317) 255-2464 x233
FAX (317) 254-0486
email <[log in to unmask]>
website <http://www.indplsartcenter.org>


-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Burlakoff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 4:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: writing samples


There is a whole raft of issues that most employers and employees do badly,
as a rule. One is ending of the employment relationship. Few employers know
how to end an employment relationship well; even fewer employees have that
skill. Thus far, in my life I have bid good-bye to well over 50 employees
and only 2 knew how to exit well.

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