{"id":1048,"date":"2011-07-22T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2011-07-22T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T06:25:03","slug":"made-a-mistake-in-hiring-process-shouldnt-have-send-those-online-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/made-a-mistake-in-hiring-process-shouldnt-have-send-those-online-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Made a mistake in hiring process, shouldn&#8217;t have send those online tests!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having fun hiring, wrote some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/recent-musings-on-hiring-and-imperfect-job-market\/\">observations<\/a> early this week. Some discussions happened on this <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerstreet.in\/item?id=7736\">thread<\/a> at hackerstreet.in.<\/p>\n<p>I made a huge mistake by giving an online test to a lot of candidates. I was selectively sending the tests to candidates whose skills were not ascertainable based on what was mentioned on the resume.\u00a0I thought that it would be okay for people between 0-3 years of experience to answer them, hence, making my life easier. I was wrong. \u00a0A lot of these tests were not attempted.<\/p>\n<p>When I tallied a report with the resumes, I found that most of the people who had more than 1 year of experience did not want to take the test. Makes sense. Candidates who are good (and good programmers are arrogant!) would ignore the test. Others who are average, would ignore anyways!<\/p>\n<p>Changing the strategy now. More skype calls and seemikecode sessions.<\/p>\n<p>This has pitfalls though. I can only do a limited number of sessions and there is a good chance some good candidates would get filtered before they reach the skype bucket.<\/p>\n<p>Is it okay to ask the candidate upfront if they are willing to take an online test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having fun hiring, wrote some observations early this week. Some discussions happened on this thread at hackerstreet.in. I made a huge mistake by giving an online test to a lot of candidates. I was selectively sending the tests to candidates whose skills were not ascertainable based on what was mentioned on the resume.\u00a0I thought that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}