When interviewing potential new colleagues, I always open proceedings with the question: “Why do you want to work at this school?” I do this for two reasons. First, this is, I hope, a straightforward question with which to settle nervous candidates, and second, because I want to be reassured that they at least pretend to want to work at my school as much as I did.
As is the case in many schools at this time of year, we have been involved in a relatively high number of interviews recently, not just because of natural turnover, but also because the school is undergoing a period of increasing pupil numbers and so needs increased levels of staffing.
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