RE: /400 skills test

[Gwecnal@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/16/2000 7:54:24 PM EST, Buck Calabro 
<buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com> writes:

>  Sorry, more controversy: Here's the wrong way to hire -- place adverts,
>  interview/test; pay according to seniority in the marketplace; hire; find
>  some work for the new hire.  Right way -- analyse outstanding tasks,
>  including the future for a year or so; determine skills needed to 
accomplish
>  those tasks; determine pay/benefits needed to get a candidate to hire on;
>  place adverts; interview/test; hire.

We agree and we know what the new person will be doing and what skill will be 
required and the skills are in the ad.  Now, how do we winnow 60 applicants 
-- all of whom claim to have decades of experience and vast expertise.  We 
don't care too much about certificates and degrees -- we want someone who can 
do the work. And we want to know before we hire that they can do the work.  
At this time we cannot afford a trainee.  How does one go about determining 
an applicant's level of expertise without a test?  Thanks in advance, Lance
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