Interview Tips
An interview
can only be conducted, officially, by a Journeyman or Master. Senior
Apprentices may perform interviews, but they must be
overseen by a Journeyman or Master and they must arrange this ahead of
time. All that is required of an applicant is acceptable completion of an
interview. This is intended to give some ideas for
questions to ask, as a guideline, but is just a guideline; the direction taken
by the RolePlaying may or may not coincide with
this, and interviewer is in no way expected to ask all the questions. Enough
on that. You just wanted some questions. So, here are some ideas...
Then there are some OOC questions
you might want to ask: What of the books (if any) have they read, and which are
their favorites? Favorite
characters? Do they have any
RL music experience, and how much? Do
they have any MOOcode experience (and how much)?
This, of course, assumes they've had any
experience on Moos at all; have they? Do
they ever plan to apply for Search? Do
they understand the difference between IC and OOC?
The OOC questions do not have any
bearing on whether or not they are accepted, but are nice to know.
In terms of other advice, just be friendly and polite.
If you don't think they're up to standard,
don't accept 'em, though.
If they haven't developed a background, you
might tell them to spend a week RPing, and come up
with one, then come back. In
general, use your good judgement and common sense as
your guide.
One
additional consideration; the IC age of the applicant.
Characters below the age of 14
Turns are unlikely to be admitted except in special
circumstances, and never under the
age of 12. Also, if an
applicant is young, they should be aware that a character under 17 Turns is
extremely unlikely to be handed any sort of promotion; the necessary
maturity simply doesn't come until a later
age.
And as a reminder: The only thing
the applicant needs to do for him/herself
is to @addfeature
#2870. The channel, the parent change, the sethome,
the title change and the mailer are all handed by one
handy dandy little staff verb. Not
to say that you can't have them do any of this, if you want them to feel
included right away, and there's not staff around... But it'll all be done for
them anyway. :)
The
above may also be accessed on the MOO itself by
typing “help harper_interview.”
