Registration for Virtual Interview Week 2021
Welcome to Senior Interview Week! It is a great pleasure to present the graduating seniors of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and the Jewish Theological Seminary to you. Interview Week provides a professional atmosphere in which senior students and affiliated congregations and institutions can “meet” to enter into a special bond. Please accept our appreciation for your online participation and flexibility during this unprecedented career search season.
As you may know, this year, the Joint Placement Commission released a statement prohibiting in-person interviews until at least April 1, 2021, with a plan to reevaluate circumstances around the Covid-19 pandemic in mid-March and adjust accordingly. Therefore, our entire event this year and subsequent interviews will be held online. The RA will schedule each of your interviews with the graduates, and synagogues will be responsible for setting up zoom links for each interview.
Over the years, we have found that synagogues aim to complete their search before Pesach. While the schedule of dates does support that goal, it is also important to know that it is not uncommon for a search to take longer. We tell you this to help you plan, but also to help alleviate some of the anxiety that might persist around timing.
Questionnaires and job descriptions must be uploaded, and Student Interview Week registration must be completed by Wednesday, January 20th at 5 PM ET.
Interviews for congregations seeking to hire graduates from the rabbinical school of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies will take place Monday through Thursday, February 8th through 11th, from 9:00 AM through 6 PM, based on your congregation’s time zone. We are excited to announce that this year all interviews will occur online, using Zoom video conferencing. We will send directions on how to create an account, if you do not already have one, and how to set up a recurring meeting room with waiting room settings to ease the transition between interviews.
Interviews are set to run 45 minutes each, with a 15 minute break in between sessions for regrouping and bio breaks. Search committees will receive an email no later than Monday, February 1st with a proposed schedule for their interviews. Resumes of the candidates will be available starting on Monday, January 25th.
If you have any questions, please be in touch with Emily Hendel (ehendel@rabbinicalassembly.org) or with Christine Aucoin (caucoin@rabbinicalassembly.org).
When
February 8th, 2021 through February 11th, 2021
Location
Zoom Conferencing