Not sure that I'm cut out for management. We've now had the *first* stage of interviews for the replacement business librarian. We had so many good candidates hat they could get 26 only down to 8 and they neither wanted to weed any more interesting looking possibilities based solely on paperwork, nor wanted to interview 8 in one go.

So a two stage process was designed where the 8 would be invited to give a presentation and have a half hour peer group discussion, followed by some
of them being invited back for a formal interview.

The first part was where I came in. Two and a bit hours of 10-15 presentations. 40 minutes of lunch with all the candidates. Four hours of peer group discussions. One hour of peer group discussing who to invite back (large based on 'points' accumulated by various measures in the candidates' two performances.

So 10am-6pm. Without a break really. I should have protested more vigourously. It would be exhausting without all the emotional extras, but as it was I arrived home way past any ability to do anything.

And just to add to the fun my assistant (shared with science librarian) was he one internal candidate - but at least she made it though to the interview stage despite running on far too long in presentation. (Given 10 minutes with 4 for questions, 17 minutes of talk is really pushing it).

At least I'm nothing to do with the interviews. We'll see how they turn out.