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Bluff City panel advances top candidate to background check after structured interviews
Summary
After structured interviews of three finalists for the city manager/town manager post, the Bluff City Board voted to advance a leading candidate to the next step: signing a release to allow a background and credit check.
Bluff City’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen advanced one finalist to the next step in the town-manager hiring process Wednesday, voting to request a signed release to run background and credit checks after a day of structured interviews.
Consultant Pete Auger led the board through a standardized interview format intended to score candidates on five competencies: conceptual ability, motivation to achieve, work habits, interpersonal skills and communication. “We ask candidates about their past experience because how they performed in the past is a better predictor of what they will do in the future,” Auger told the board before the interviews began.
The board heard answers from three finalists over multiple rounds of questions. Auger…
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