Ah, excellent questions, Miss Greengrass. I'll answer here, in case it's helpful to others (and feel free to ask other questions about the process as well.)
1) The interview is done with a small panel, generally myself and ideally two of the YPL committee members. Exactly who depends on availability, but it's most commonly been Auror Wright and Mrs Provim (who spends her workdays in the Wizarding Examination Authority office.)
2) School robes are just fine - and in fact, it might be best to think about it as a conversation, rather than an interview.
None of the committee members are particularly sensitive to scent, but we'd prefer to focus on you, not what you're wearing. (And we usually interview in my office, so there's a fair bit of space and comfortable seating.)
3) We don't share the specific questions in advance, but we are looking at a combination of:
- someone's past history, behaviour, and leadership - their ability to guide younger students - their ability to encourage friendships both within their house and between students of other Houses. - common sense and practical approaches to problem solving. - what they feel the position will allow them to learn, practice, or better understand, and how that might help them in the future.
Some of these things, we already have a good idea about, but we also ask some questions about situations that have come up on trips, or have a sample situation for someone to solve or comment on. You can ask older students who are counsellors about some of what we've asked in previous years, but of course, we change the specific questions for each year (and vary them between students in a given year.)
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1) The interview is done with a small panel, generally myself and ideally two of the YPL committee members. Exactly who depends on availability, but it's most commonly been Auror Wright and Mrs Provim (who spends her workdays in the Wizarding Examination Authority office.)
2) School robes are just fine - and in fact, it might be best to think about it as a conversation, rather than an interview.
None of the committee members are particularly sensitive to scent, but we'd prefer to focus on you, not what you're wearing. (And we usually interview in my office, so there's a fair bit of space and comfortable seating.)
3) We don't share the specific questions in advance, but we are looking at a combination of:
- someone's past history, behaviour, and leadership
- their ability to guide younger students
- their ability to encourage friendships both within their house and between students of other Houses.
- common sense and practical approaches to problem solving.
- what they feel the position will allow them to learn, practice, or better understand, and how that might help them in the future.
Some of these things, we already have a good idea about, but we also ask some questions about situations that have come up on trips, or have a sample situation for someone to solve or comment on. You can ask older students who are counsellors about some of what we've asked in previous years, but of course, we change the specific questions for each year (and vary them between students in a given year.)