Re: job testing

Personally, I have no objection to you asking this question, but I think
you will only get (at most) opinion.  Your best course of action is to
contact the Career Development Departments of local Universities.
That's what they do, they have statistics and are usually glad to
share them, especially the State institutions.


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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:48:51 EDT HAVEAJOB <HAVEAJOB@aol.com> writes:
>A little help, if I may be so humble to ask (read BEG!!!!)...
>
>I have a client company of mine that needs to hire several new
>developers/programmers/analysts.  
>
>Several factors:  they are a fairly large shop, they are in a very low 
>cost of
>living area, their salaries are MUCH lower than average, their area is 
>hard to
>recruit people into, they have salary equity concerns within their 
>shop, they
>are a consortium essentially not for profit so new budget dollars 
>every year
>are hard to come by, etc.  the bottom line is that they are losing 
>people
>through attrition and losses to other companies.  They recognize their
>problems but just can't seem to get thier salaries up to par fast 
>enough,
>mainly due to the conservative nature of their business and the very 
>upper
>level management's failure to address this issue in times past.
>
>To combat the problem, they have decided that hiring new graduates and 
>getting
>them ingrained into their community seems to be the best way to go.  
>They have
>a virtual monopoly on their business and do not anticipate serious 
>market
>share problems to arise from the training lag (even though they are 
>working
>50+ hour weeks now and are severely understaffed).  The concern is 
>more from a
>service issue to their clients than a loss of business.  They will be 
>hiring
>both BS and AS candidates with backgorunds in MIS and Computer 
>Science.
>
>That's where I come in; the HR department has asked me to help them 
>with
>salary expectations and additional information.  While I see what my 
>other
>client companies often hire new graduate for, I'd appreciate any 
>feedback. My
>questions:
>
>1.  What is a reasonable starting salary for new graduates with no 
>experience?
>They will hire both BS and AS candidates.  Target area is the South 
>Central
>US.  Positions will include a variety of skills and platforms; they 
>use an
>AS/400, C/S UNIX box, and VSE mainframe in their applications.  
>Languages will
>primarily be COBOL/COBOL400/Microfocus COBOL but there will be some 
>Visual
>Basic and PC development.
>
>2.  I'm sure there are services that provide fundamental skills level 
>testing.
>I know of only one or two companies.  Can anyone point me in the right
>direction, either URL. address, or phone number of companies that will 
>test
>specific computer programming knowledge skills?
>
>TIA, 
>
>Dave Brown
>800-239-1410 x2205
>haveajob@aol.com -or- haveajob@airnet.net
>
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