If you were recruiting for Art/Design education faculty position(s) in your institution/department, what would you be looking out for or would like to hear from your ideal candidate? Keep your thoughts coming, colleagues.
A creative person who can motivates and challenges learners to be highly innovative to bring new things into existence. Such a person must possess a high standard of creativity and is able to philosophically understand design diacritics.
S/he must possess the skills to teach and coach learners through excellent teaching approaches, particularly, learner-centred approaches such as discovery learning.
Dear Dennis,
you might find some insights in the US-based database O*Net, see
https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/27-1024.00
In general it is recomendable to use situative interview questions on the bases of competencies you should have defined in advance (ask high performing job incumbents for instance). In terms of work probes it might be useful to have a look upon past achievements (including design work).
Get information about the evaluation of past academic teaching.
For an overlook regarding the validity and impact of selction tools see:
Farr, J. L. & Tippins, N. T. (Eds.). (2017). Handbook of employee selection. 2nd Edition. London: Ruthledge Academics.
In general select for cognitive abilities, conscientiousness, integrity and - in your case - openness to experience. Use sound psychometric tools, good providers can be found in the market, e.g. SHL corporation or Cut-e corporation. Very useful and widely accepted as well as scientifically very sound is SHL's OPQ32 - a questionnaire which conducts self-description of job-relevant behaviours, easy to understand, affordable (you'll get a personality profile for example).
See:
British Psychological Society Psychological Testing Centre Test Reviews (2007). Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ32). The British Psychological Society.
Fingers crossed,
Lothar Bildat
Dennis,
As a PhD in Human Resources, I would conduct a job analysis to identify the key factors for successful performance.
Real world practical experience would be a "flair factor" from my perspective. Faculty must also demonstrate superb communication skills -- including the ability to write effectively, since much of learning is done by reading.
Being able to demonstrate the skills is, of course, incredibly important as well . . . but so is the ability to go beyond demonstrating to be able to explain HOW to do the skill . . . a capability rarely emphasized.
Attached as a file is a paper I wrote about how to determine those "flair factors."
Cam Caldwell
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