What is your favorite interview style
We were trying to find the best recruitment process, that can be as fast as possible and brings good staff as well as making a good reputation to the company, so we tried many styles
The first style was to put an ad in the newspapers, and we received TONS of C.V's, and this made us waste a lot of time refining these CV's.
Then we rented a big place in a Hilton and invited everybody to a workshop, in order to see everybody working so we can choose clearly
the candidates who worked well in the workshop, proceed to a personal interview.
The result of this expensive workshop just TWO out of a big group of candidates.
So, we decided that this process is really waste of time and money and we made another process.
The second style was to make HARD technical exam to the candidates,
15 Q's C#, 10 DB Q's and 5 Q's general programming (Total 40 Q's)
the candidates who got good marks in the exam, proceed to a personal interview.
and the result of this process was better, as we got about NINE people, and we didn't pay as much as we did in the first phase.
The third style was to make an EASIER exam, because we thought that we could have missed some good people just because they were surprised by the questions, so we
made the exam total 20 Q's (10 C#, 2 General Programming, 5 DB and 3 General IT Knowledge)
and here comes the funny part, some people refused to take the exam and considered it as an insult for them to take technical exam, some of them didn't answer at all, and the others accepted to take the exam after we convinced them and their answers were really bad.
As you can see we put some General IT Knowledge like most common used technical abbreviations (XML, XSL, HTTP, DTD, WCF, WF ... etc) . and the surprise thing that no body got more than 10 out of 20 abbreviations, and they are supposed to work as Senior Software Developers !!!!!!!!
So after this, we are still trying to find the best recruitment process?, so what is Your Favorite One ??????
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