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Charlotte Ballet in Search of a New AD


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It's not unusual to have an arts consultant in charge of a search, and LinkedIn and trade journals are the best ways to make the announcement transparent.

True, and that's a fascinating development -- for many years, those kinds of job searches were done quite under wraps. When the search committee at PNB here in Seattle made their short list public, I got several incredulous calls from friends around the country who couldn't believe that they would do something like that.

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Hopefully, the PNB example will never be used again, in Seattle or anywhere else. I think it is reasonable to make a search public and the final selection and even the process -- X applications received, semi-finalists will be interviewed over Skype, finalists will be flown to [city] for in-person interviews with Board, administration, dancers, backstage, etc. -- but to list the people who are finalists is a horrid idea, however interesting it was to watch. Some of the people who applied had permanent-type jobs, and it would be demoralizing for a company, for example, to learn that, not only did their AD apply, their AD didn't get the job and is there only because s/he didn't get a better offer elsewhere. If a person wants it to get out that he or she was a finalist or rejected for whatever reason, there are plenty of opportunities on social media for the news to get out.

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