Helene Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Thanks to a heads up from friends on social media: An arts consultant has posted the job listing for Artistic Director of Charlotte Ballet to LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/charlotte-ballet-artistic-director-goline-dory-vanderhoof Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, the current AD, is 72. Link to comment
sandik Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I don't know, but I'm listed on LinkedIn -- I think that the old word-of-mouth network will be more productive in this search. Link to comment
Helene Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
sandik Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
Helene Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 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. Link to comment
sandik Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 I appreciate the distinction, and I imagine that it did create some tension -- "transparency" has been a local buzzword for a number of years, but it's sometimes practiced to excess. Link to comment
Helene Posted October 6, 2015 Author Share Posted October 6, 2015 I think it's important to be public about someone leaving and the job being open, because, especially with so much social media, it will get out, and appearing to hide things is rarely a good idea. Link to comment
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