On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 9:00am, I had an interview with three individuals (all women of varying ethnicities). I arrived a few minutes earlier and waited outside the main room until I was escorted into the board room. First, someone set up a clock, next, another person stated that I was not to take it personally, but that they would be writing instead of making eye contact for each set of questions, and that I was to hold all of my questions to the very end, in order for the interviewing process to fit within the standard procedures.
For the most part, I adhered to the standard, answering the questions, and waiting to the very end to ask two questions of my own. One of those questions I asked was the next steps in the process. I was told decisions would go out in the end of July 2018 through September 2018. At the very end, I saw a few smiles as they described how they had many cases to address in copyright and it appears that a couple of women seemed overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work.
In addition, I was required to complete and sign a Reference Permission / Consent Form which was given during the interviewing process. The following business day, I did so, and emailed the form in as a PDF along with the signed copy of a thank you note for all the panelists.
Unfortunately, I never received a follow up regarding the Copyright position either email or phone. Since I am familiar with how spam works and other IT stuff, I did not see any notices in my emails. This left me with a negative impression of the Copyright division that the time I spent preparing to interview was not worth their time in notifying me.
Ironically enough, I did hear back from a different position in a different division of LOC (Public Affairs Coordinator) that notified me that I was not selected. So the issue may have been among those in the Copyright division, and not LOC in general.
