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[quote=Anonymous]The best hiring process I have heard of is at a pool where they make a hiring committee out of the following roles:
Team reps
Head referee
Pool board treasurer 
Data Coordinator

The reason that I like this structure is that it doesn’t put all the power into just the team reps (which is especially problematic if they are married, which at some pools they are and many others they aren’t). It also doesn’t allow the team reps to hand select a “committee” who will vote however they want. It allows 5 individuals who all commit a lot of volunteer hours to work together to make decisions.

In my opinion these hiring decisions should apply for hiring and re-hiring the head and assistant coaches as well as the junior coaches.

The process should also be transparent.

That said, children of the people who volunteer the most should absolutely be allowed to be hired if they are qualified!

Also as an aside, while being able to swim fast shouldn’t be a criteria for hiring, I do think understanding how to technically improve people’s swimming should be. We aren’t actually hiring babysitters but swim coaches.

I’ve seen many junior coaches who have no clue how to coach swimming actually make swimming harder for the kids they are “coaching”.[/quote]

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