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

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

The problem I see with this is that it's one thing to
show the text to candidates and ask what techniques
might be employed to better organize the information,
another to sit candidates down at a keyboards and
expect them to magically know which bits and pieces
should be restructured and how (unless, as I said,
your "simple" text is based on subjects that the
average person needs no training or familiarization in).
If I were to take a page of a typical user guide from
my last company and change all the formatting to plain
text and run-on paragraphs, there isn't a candidate
in the world without an electrical engineering degree
and years of experience who would be able to restructure 
the information in a way that would make sense without
guidance from an SME or a user.  If you are finding that
people with loads of experience and great references are
still not getting it, perhaps you are underestimating the
"simplicity" of your test material.

Gene Kim-Eng


------- Original Message -------
On 11/17/2006 12:48 AM Sharon Burton wrote:

In our environment, I'm looking for super stars that automatically think
about these devices if they have 4 days to help a "fix" manual for a product
they have never seen before. It may be all the time we have. Our products
are also very complex and I can't spend the time teaching you to think - I
need to see that you can logically think before I hire you. I see way too
many "senior" writers who can't logically think and are also slow writers.
In my particular group at this moment in time, I need fast writers who grasp
technology fast and develop logically organized docs.
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