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"Handling" Unavialable SMEs Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
Subject:"Handling" Unavialable SMEs Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:55:12 -0800 (PST)
It has been my experience that this unavialability of people who "have the info" is often not an accident. I have often discovered that what I intuitively though a SME would know, he/she, in reality, only had a disjointed understanding. Such individual are hard to reach because they fear exposure.
How to handle? First and foremost, be aware of this potential issue. And then??
Richard Lewis
From: "James Barrow"
Anyway, back to my point. If you were faced with a deadline, and the
people
that had the information you need were unavailable, how would you handle
that? You could:
a. Throw your hands up, say 'screw it', not do the work, and blame the
people that couldn't give you the info that you needed.
b. Go to your boss and complain.
c. Go to the info people with a high-powered rifle and some duct tape
and
threaten them.
d. Curl up in a fetal position and weep like a baby.
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