RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

Subject: RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
From: "James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:12:42 -0800

>>... 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:
[]
> b. Go to your boss and complain.
[]
>None of the above.
>
>Good lord, hasn't *everyone* on this list been in that situation? You go
>to your boss (unless you're the boss -- see below), and you lay out the
>situation. *Don't* complain, just lay out the facts as you know them.
>Your goal is not to assign blame, but rather to find the best solution
>possible under the circumstances.
>
>Most solutions involve at least one of these:
>a. Setting a new deadline
>b. Redefining the required information
>c. Contacting "unavailable" people
>
>These are business decisions. That's why there's a boss. If it's you, it
>wouldn't be a bad idea to find a Wise Employee to consult with before
>making your decision.

ARRRGH! I swear, you people on this list are so picayune...oh wait...that
might be a good thing for a tech writer. Still, I stand by my original
statement: ARRRGH!

Fine, Dan, we'll play this reindeer game your way. You're fictitious
workplace described above is a dream world. No where in the history of the
cubicle farm has work ever been conducted in this manner:

Tech writer: "Current deadline shall not be met"
Project manager: "Initializing new deadline"
Tech writer: "New deadline uploaded"
Project manager: "Intruder alert"

Also, I never said anything about placing blame. If "finding the best
solution possible under the circumstances" makes you happy, then we'll use
that.

THE POINT WAS...there are a variety of responses that an employee can
display in the workplace. A hiring
manager/interviewer/recruiter...whatEVER...simply wants to find out if your
response fits in with his/her work environment.

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