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--- Forwarded Message from Nina Garrett <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:45:17 -0400 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Nina Garrett <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5094 followup, re database of job descriptions >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Responding to Samantha's suggestion for a database of language technology job descriptions -- I think it's a really good idea, and not only for the reasons she adduces. The field as a whole needs an enormous amount of consciousness-raising in this area, and the more information we can put out there, and the more visible we can make that information, the better. What's so difficult is getting to the people who publish wrong-headed job descriptions without even realizing that IALL exists or that this is a recognized field etc. **before** they publish their ads -- because once the ads are published it's usually extremely difficult to recall, revise, and re-publish them. Some years ago I received a form-letter flyer of a language lab director job ad expressing the hope that I would apply. The job description was not very well conceived, and on impulse I wrote a very diffident letter to the head of the search committee, trying very diplomatically to suggest what the problems were. Almost immediately on receiving my letter she called me up to thank me, and we talked for more than half an hour. She said she was just an assistant professor in a language department with purely literary training and had no idea at all how to go about a search for such a position, and no one at her institution had any awareness of IALL or the field. She said that the minute she'd read my letter she'd called the dean and persuaded him to cancel the search until she could read up, and indeed I saw the re-posted job ad a month later. That incident has really stuck in my mind. None of us can take the time to respond to every problematic job ad, and besides, as I said, we need to get the information to the people who frame them *beforehand.* How should we do this?? Best, Nina >I got some great information on job descriptions as well, which leads me to >a question: has anyone ever considered making a database of language >technology job descriptions? (indexed by duties, type of institution, etc; >don't have to be identified by name necessarily). Seems like it might be a >useful resource for language departments or information technology units, >as well as a good point of reference for people like me who know the field >well but would like some comparison points when creating new positions. >Or/additionally, it would be useful for people like me who need to convince >dept chairs & senior administrators that new positions of this type deserve >appropriate salaries. I know IALL has kept up with job announcements, but >I'm wondering about actual job descriptions, beyond what was included in >the Management Manual.... > >Samantha > >-------------------------------- >Samantha Earp >Director, Language Resource Center >Dept. of Languages and Culture Studies >University of North Carolina - Charlotte >Charlotte, NC 28223 > >phone: (704) 510-6876 fax: (704) 547-3496 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] > Nina Garrett Director of Language Study Yale University P.O. Box 208349 New Haven, CT 06520-8349 Tel. (203) 432-8196 Fax. (203) 432-4485 [log in to unmask] Campus address: Room 308, 1 Hillhouse Avenue