Megan:
I'll just share my experience for what it's worth. Not sure what your
background is, but when I took the tests, I was five years out of an MA
program in History Museum Studies and had worked in a history museum for
those 5 years. I did nothing specifically to prepare for the tests, and
did well enough to receive periodic job postings from the State.
The long and short of it is that I didn't do anything to prepare and did
well on the tests. Guess the amount and nature of preparation you'd
need to do would depend on your education and work experience.
Anyway, GOOD LUCK!
Monica Simpson
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] NYS Civil Service Advice?
Dear List:
I will be taking the NYS Civil Service exam for the position of Historic
Site Assistant on March 10th. Has anyone ever taken this or a similar
exam (other NYS civil service positions include Historic Site Managers
and Interpretive Program Assistants)? Do you have any advice on how to
prepare for the exam?
The exam description highlights five areas covered in the written test.
I am most concerned with the following four topics:
1. Educating and interacting with the public: "testing knowledge of
interpretive and educational techniques, assessing needs of an audience,
preparing educational and informational materials, presentations, and
exhibits."
2. Supervision: these questions are situational leadership questions
about "planning, organizing, and controlling the activities of a work
unit toward predetermined objectives." I am not sure if these will be
museum specific...
3. Supporting museum operations: "These questions test for knowledge in
assisting in such areas as collection care and presentation, care of
structures and grounds, historical research methods, ethics, educating
and interacting with the public, security, and interpretive
programming."
4. Understanding and interpreting historical narrative material:
"understanding narrative material... from the perspective of presenting
and interpreting history to the public.
Can anyone give me advice on materials that might provide general
overviews of any (or all) of these topics?
Thanks so much!
-Megan Welsh
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