Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for curators. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Plan and organize the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections and related materials, including the selection of exhibition themes and designs, and develop or install exhibit materials.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Develop and maintain an institution's registration, cataloging, and basic record-keeping systems, using computer databases.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Plan and conduct special research projects in area of interest or expertise.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Provide information from the institution's holdings to other curators and to the public.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Negotiate and authorize purchase, sale, exchange, or loan of collections.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Study, examine, and test acquisitions to authenticate their origin, composition, history, and to assess their current value.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Plan and organize the acquisition, storage, and exhibition of collections and related materials, including the selection of exhibition themes and designs, and develop or install exhibit materials.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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