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Committee narrows application essays to three prompts and discusses task-based evaluation
Summary
Members debated narrative versus task-based prompts and agreed to limit narrative questions to three items that probe budget strategy, capital planning and staff/community leadership while preserving interview steps to test operational skills.
Committee members reviewed sample narrative questions and debated whether to require essays or add task-based work samples. The transcript records multiple proposed narrative prompts, including a request that candidates "in 300–400 words, walk us through how you would approach a multiyear structural budget gap" and a prompt to "describe how you build a 3, 5, and 10 year capital improvement plan that is financially realistic and publicly credible."
A committee member recommended adding work-sample tasks to evaluate hard skills ("for this level of position, I'd like to see an action or task"), arguing that strategic-planning and capital-budget examples would show whether applicants can do the operational work. After discussion the group agreed to limit the posted narrative prompts to three questions and to rely on the interview and prescreening matrix to test more quantitative or operational competencies.
The committee asked HR to enable applicants to save draft responses in the application portal and to prepare an evaluation rubric so panels can score narrative answers consistently.
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