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Re: Giving a surprise test to interviewees?

Subject: Re: Giving a surprise test to interviewees?
From: "John Fleming" <johntwrl -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:41:35 +0000


From: leeghunter -at- gmail -dot- com (Lee Hunter)
Subject: Re: Giving a surprise test to interviewees?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:45:37 -0500

I'm curious, though, why you think it's important to make this a
surprise. Why not just tell people they're coming in for an interview
and a brief writing test? Deliberately hiding stuff sounds like a bad
way to start off a relationship with anyone.

I have enough short "tests" on technical writer job interviews to expect them as a matter of course--even if they don't tell me about them when I book the interview.

OK, most of them are of the form, "Here is an activity. Write a short procedure describing how to do the activity."

Still, in doing this, I provide the employer/client with a sample of my work that allows them to assess my ability to do the work they need me to do to their level of satisfaction.

The time I will start to worry is the day they give me a test with questions like, "Read the above paragraph. What was the author thinking when he wrote those words?" I used to get those in high school English tests, and it's always tempting to answer it with, "Lunch".

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John Fleming
Technical Writer
Edmonton, Canada



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