Audition Type #1: Technical Audition
July 23rd, 2007
If you’re thinking about auditions, consider a “technical” audition for any of your open positions. A technical audition provides you a little insight into a candidate’s functional skills.If you’re hiring a developer, ask the candidate to extend a design, or find a problem and design a solution. You could ask a tester to test a piece of a product, or a particular set of features.A particularly good technical audition is one where you always ask the candidates (for a certain role) to perform the same kind of work. Ask each developer to write some kind of code, or ask a tester to test some specific product. (Don’t vary the task between candidates.)You can use these auditions for a phone screen or an in-person interview.Consider technical auditions the minimum entry point for auditions. You’ll learn a lot about a candidate with this audition.
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1. John Rusk | July 24th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Hi Johanna,
Do you have any audition suggestions for hiring a business analyst?
2. Hiring Technical People &&hellip | March 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
[…] to work with the candidate in an audition (possibly pairing) and review as you […]
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