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RE: RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

Subject: RE: RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:26:10 +0000

I think the difference here is your previous post in
which the "writing test" seemed to be less of a means to gauge writer skill than some sort of a behavioral evaluation trick. If you really want the former, what's
the problem with telling the candidate up front that
there will be a brief skills test? If it's the latter,
a much more effective game would be to have your boss
interrupt the interview to chew you out over some
fictional document issue and then see how the candidate
handles *that.* It's no less manipulative than the
"surprise writing test."

From my POV as both manager and candidate, BTW.

Gene Kim-Eng


------- Original Message -------
On 11/17/2006 12:48 AM Sharon Burton wrote:
But you're interviewing for a writing job so where is the surprise? I'd be
surprised if you didn't know this was possible. I've had them sprung on me
many times and I always get excited. I'm very good at writing and I'm
interviewing for a writing thing. So what's the big deal?
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