Editorial Recruitment

The Programming Historian regularly recruits new editors for its languages.

Recruitment Process for new Editors

This process should be led by the language teams Managing Editor. The process is usually as follows:

1. Identify a need & discuss it with your team, including timelines
2. Adapt an old advert from the blog to meet new needs
3. Post and disseminate
4. Prepare a set of questions and interview a subset of applicants
5. Select suitable candidates
6. Invite them on an agreed term (3 years is ideal)
7. Send editors to our Publishing Assistant for onboarding and refer them to our Onboarding docs
8. Set up meetings with ME and other editors for additional training and team building

Interview Questions for Candidates

Interview questions for the recent English team's interviews included the following:

• Why are you interested in this position, and what would you bring to this role?
• What kind of editorial experience do you have?
• How comfortable are you working in GitHub?
• What experience do you have working on a distributed team?
• What kinds of lessons or other work would you like to see PH take on?

Sample Calls for New Editors

• English call (2022)
• French call (2020)
• English call (2020)