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

["Derk Ederveen" <derke -at- accountview -dot- com>]

I wrote:
> > At our company, we ask candidates to write an instruction for
> > the process of making coffee. They can do this at home, in two
> > or three days:

Kevin wrote:
> Jeez.......... I'd have to buy a coffee machine.
> I haven't made coffee in twenty?... thirty?... years.

Well, I didn't realize that coffee making is not everyone's 'cup of
tea'. In The Netherlands, it's hard to find someone who doesn't own a
coffee machine, or doesn't know how to make coffee. But as long as we're
looking for Dutch writers, we'll keep using the test.

Although I have to admit that the fine art of coffee making is being
replaced more and more by things like Senseo and Nespresso machines.
Just put in a pad or something like that and press the button... in a
few years we'll have to come up with a different test. Maybe than we
should try to find a more international one. Suggestions?

BTW, interesting to see that a simple test can generate so much
discussion :-)

-de
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