Common use of Panel Interviews Clause in Contracts

Panel Interviews. The Hospital and WSNA value the ability for nurses to actively participate in the hiring process on an advisory interview panel. To this end, managers may elect, or an applicant may request, to utilize “panel interviews” when skill and ability in a specialty area or qualities such as teaching ability or collaboration skills are deemed particularly important (for example for Charge Nurse, Specialty Educator or other positions). Panel interviews shall be subject to the following: 13.2.1.1 Where practical given the size of the unit, the panel must include at least three staff nurses from the department who hold a .5 or greater FTE; 13.2.1.2 Interview panels will be made up of nurses who are randomly selected to be invited to participate in the interview process by Human Resources; 13.2.1.3 The panel must interview all applicants and ask the same basic questions of each; 13.2.1.4 Panel interviewers shall rank the applicants from most qualified to least, giving due consideration to seniority. The Manager shall take into consideration the advisory panel’s ranking when determining who is the most qualified for the position; 13.2.1.5 A WSNA representative, not in the affected unit, shall attend the panel interviews as an observer to promote consistency in the interview process.