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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!isc
- From: isc@panix.com (David Koosis)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: New Employee Test
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.201452.27280@panix.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:14:52 GMT
- References: <1992Nov22.010912.10552@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Nov22.134339@IASTATE.EDU>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <1992Nov22.134339@IASTATE.EDU> kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov22.010912.10552@en.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- >krauskop@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Curtis D Krauskopf) writes:
- >>(Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
- >>> I thought I would mention that, at least it in New York, it is
- >>> illegal to give
- >>>a test to prospective employees before hiring them.
-
- I'm not a lawyer, but...
-
- I once wrote a word-processing skills test that is used at a major company
- for pre-employment screening. My understanding is that
-
- a) you can only test things that are clearly job-relevent
-
- b) you must measure the skills of the job candidate against
- the skills of your current employees who are performing the same job
-
-
- if a job candidate performs as well on a tech test as current employees
- who perform the same job, that's good enough. In the case of the WP
- skills test i mentioned, I had to perform a statistically valid survey
- of all the existing employees in the relevent job category we were testing.
- The test scores were weighted against the performance of the current
- employee base.
-
- What to do if one wishes to _improve_ the existing skill level?
- (train your employees!)
-
- What to do if the technology is new to the hiring company?
- (dunno)
-
- :wq
-
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