Can anyone recommend any particularly good research / articles that explain why sending interview candidates the questions you are going to ask them in advance of the interview is a good thing to do? Particularly in higher education (but anywhere will do)? Thanks!
@academicchatter Trying to pursue this & HR are citing potential candidates use of AI as a reason to not do this (!) 🙄
AI isn't going to be able to write what somebody's experience is (it might extract it from their CV perhaps, but that would be fine since the experience is real and exists.
If the concern is that AI might help them lie / make up answers to the questions, well - isn't that also a problem that could happen without AI?
@politicscurator@academicchatter I believe Leeds Library was as well. Looking up “Fair Library Jobs” and asking that group (used to be on X, now have a Substack) is also a good shout. Thomas Peach, in particular might know specific studies. (For a piece of anecdote-data, we have been doing this for years now (at the advice of our disability support service) and loads of candidates have remarked how supportive it is.
@politicscurator@academicchatter This is something we ask for as a disability accommodation, and I’m grateful that we are being heard. I don’t know about the research behind it, but as a disabled person, we shouldn’t have to prove that what we need is verifiable in the eyes of others. #Disability#Ableism
@politicscurator@academicchatter University of Westminster library dept were doing some research on this with academic colleagues, I'd suggest getting in touch with them.
@politicscurator@academicchatter I work in a mostly participatory context and always offer either the broad questions in advance or full interview schedules because it helps with access and even if participants aren’t disabled, can help generate more thoughtful answers. But I guess it depends on context?
@politicscurator@academicchatter@tjkendon it’s something we’ve started doing with positive results, tied to our campus neurodiversity and mental wellness initiatives. I’ll ask colleagues to see what resources were used to guide that shift.
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