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Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
Subject:Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar From:Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:02:08 -0800 (PST)
My main point is that I you want skill at larger scale TWing projects, then you need to test for skill at larger scale TWing projects - not for skill at smaller scale projects. And since it is not practical to (i.e., it would take too much time) to test for skill art larger scale projects, then out with tests and in with behavioral based interviewing. Of course behavioral based interviewing only works if the interviewer knows what the proper behavior is and is willing to sign onto it - a very big if.
Richard Lewis
John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> People who excel at larger scale TWing efforts are not the best
> at smaller scale TWing efforts.
>
> Richard Lewis
I don't accept a generalization that broad. If you know how to do b
oth, you can be good at both. To produce good documentation, you
follow a process. If you know both procedsses, you can produce good
documentation for b oth types of efforts.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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