Re: Pay for the privilege...

"Hatunen" <hatunen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:58:40 -0400, John W Kennedy
> <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>news.verizon.net wrote:
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>>> "Blanche" <bcohen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Hm...let's see...when I interview for a job I don't get paid. If
>>>> I'm currently working on a contract, I'm required to take time off
>>>> and never with pay, to interview.
>>>>
>>>
>>> has anyone in the history of the world ever been paid for an
>>> interview??? beck
>>
>>At a suffiently high level, expenses may be paid.
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>

Actually, paying the expenses of an interviewee is pretty routine in 
academics.  By the time you get down to your final candidates you are 
courting them.  The last search I chaired before I retired from a biology 
department to open a theatre we had 246 candidates submit an application, 
got letters on about 120 of them, phone interviewed a dozen and brought 4 
in.  In some ways, all 246 made some investment since they had to spend
time 
writing their letter of application, gathering up reprints of their 
published work and paying postage to send in a pretty thick package. 
Probably not as much expense as taking the day off but some.

On the other hand, an acter in an open call is courting the producer. 
Perhaps the analogy would be having regional auditions and then flying in 
the finalists to audition in NY or LA for final auditions.

Peter