LaGuardia Community College Interview Questions
& Process

You apply online and then have an interview that's about 20-30 minutes. If you're hired, you'll start training either in the summer or winter, and then begin work in the Spring or Fall semester. Your schedule is very flexible and based on what you provide.

The interview process included a teaching demonstration followed by a standard interview with a panel. The candidate felt that unless one had a prior relationship with the school, hopes should be kept low. After sending a follow-up email, there was no response from the chair, and a form rejection, which was not even for the correct department, was received 7 months later. The impression was that the interview was a formality, as a legitimate academic department wouldn't hire full-time faculty based on a single 45-minute Zoom interview.

This hiring process moved at a glacial pace. The job posting went live in February, but the initial interview didn't happen until mid-April. That first round was a committee interview. They asked a mix of general questions, like your biggest workplace strength or weakness, and more specific ones, such as what primary sources you'd use for a community college class. That first interview felt pretty professional. The next interview, with the director of the archives, was a different story. His behavior was unprofessional – he ate, checked his phone several times, and even made a jab about me coming from Manhattan to Queens. To top it off, he mailed a hard copy of my rejection letter to my current employer without any heads-up (though it didn't arrive because the address was wrong). It was a complete mess. It makes sense why they advertise jobs every year and the staff seems unhappy.

I got a call on Wednesday at 4 pm asking if I could come in Thursday for an interview. I couldn't, so they gave me another day. I was sent the names of 5 people on the panel. When I arrived, an admin on the panel told me they were happy I was early because they wanted to go home. I had checked out the 5 people and noticed the highest ranking one wasn't there. I asked the 4-member panel, and the admin person said that person was no longer part of the process. They asked a series of predetermined questions, and nobody asked any follow-up questions. At the end, one adjunct said LaGuardia students weren't capable of securing internships, and the admin said their biggest challenge was getting the kids to transfer. I felt they sold the LaGuardia kids short. The whole interview was over in 22 minutes. It was a waste of my time.