2y ago

Do you think potential candidates should be reimbursed in some form for taking assessments that are required by the employer in order to be considered for employment?

Also, should this be available for only job candidates who are not considered for the position?

Or should it go for every job candidate, even the ones that get the position?

Thanks for reading and being your most precious and sensual self ❤️.

@workreform@lemmy.world
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I think they shouldn't be there in the first place - what is education for? Why are we doing assessments at the education level if they aren't actually valued or indicative of job performance?
- I've helped with hiring before, and I've never needed to do an assessment to gauge whether someone was right for the job. Within about 10 minutes of conversation, it's pretty easy to tell where they're at.
- Not everyone is 20 years old. This absolutely doesn't make sense if you're hiring a 50 year old person who has been working for 30 years; their college grades are completely irrelevant at that point.
  
  Right, but if someone has been working for 30 years consistently do you really still need to assess them? Does an interview not suffice?
  
  Nobody is hiring 50 year olds. They are getting rid of 50 year olds and replacing them with 20 year olds
- Some people make it through school (even higher education) and are dumber than bricks
  
  Right, and some dumb people get jobs, sure. However, if the grades they get from school aren't showing their knowledge instead of ignoring the qualification we should be working on improving it so it does.
- @solivine@sopuli.xyz
  @SensualSass zI couldn't sexually agree more. It's ridiculous to take quizzes. Like, I have my diploma from graduating first grade biotch. Get out my face with those non-sensual requirements. 💯💫💥
Anything past a half hour interview should be billable hours. Fight me.
- I'll bite.
  Are you ready to pay the company for their time after the first half person-hour spent interviewing you?
  More serious answer: are you really only investing half an hour of time investigating the company you will work for? Sheesh, when I'm looking I want to know work conditions, typical and expected hours, opportunity for growth, WFH policy, reasons for vacancy, industry connections, compensation structure, mentorship, responsabilities... and I mean more than just asking that list of questions and taking whatever they say at face value.
  I guess it's all moot if you only plan to be there for three months, but who the hell would want to hire someone for three months. At that point, just be a contractor.
  
  They're hiring you, not the other way around. So of course not.
I got them eliminated for two of the positions that report to me (the only two that had them).
Yeah, you need to know how basic accounting works, but that's going to be obvious from your CV; you don't have to prove it again.
I do get that in some industries, especially highly technical ones, you might need some evidence of how they problem solve. But if ask people to do something at home, you should pay them for it.
What assessments? Why are they necessary? How many candidates are asked to take the assessments?
Normal interview processes shouldn't require any assessment beyond a resume review and standard interview.
Speaking as both a software developer and a sometime hiring manager or hiring consultant: Yes absolutely.
As a developer, if you give me something to " take home ", I expect to be paid an hourly rate for it. It doesn't really matter if the work is going to be used thereafter or if it's throw away. The employer gets valuable information, and I've spent time focused on their project to the exclusion of all else.
As a hiring manager or consultant, if I can't get a handle on your skill set sufficient to justify the risk of a 90-day trial relationship (pretty common in the state I live in, here in the United States) within a one hour conversation, then I've done something wrong. Interviews I've led or otherwise been a part of don't tend to last more than 15 or 20 minutes unless we really hit it off and start talking about 3d printing or something.
Note that everything I'm talking about refers to technical interviews. I don't do the HR stuff.
I am comfortable with reasonable interview lengths where I gain something. I learn lots from most interviews and I always get practice. That gives me value. Take home problems that don’t interest me? Won’t do it unless I’m paid because it’s suddenly one-sided. I gain value from conversations. Drug tests? I’ve been able to aim my pee since toddler years so I gain nothing of value there. Other things that do not involve a conversation between me and someone meaningful at the company I work at? No. Pay me.
This attitude has cost me a few job opportunities for sure. It’s also gotten me out of a few things here and there for jobs I got. And for the right opportunity I’ll bend things a bit.
Hospital is paying for my A+ and Network+ certifications. Hell, they wouldn’t even let me take one without the other. They’re set up to directly pay the people that do the teaching and exam fees for half a dozen other Comptia certifications, and are able to reimburse us for certifications that aren’t listed yet. Do I want to go get Azure certs? Yes, and I’ve had it confirmed they’ve reimbursed for it before and will reimburse for it again.
So I’m going to be here for awhile, probably.
I did a 2 day long "bootcamp" for the company I now work at. Basically two days working directly alongside my future colleagues but on a non-product related exercise task. I really appreciated it. First day was still weird and I was nervous, but on the second day it already felt normal and all conversations were extremely relaxed.
I got involved in the daily team routine, took part in coffee talks, etc
Doing the actual task was just time filler for getting a feeling of the new workplace and for them to see if I fit in.
Especially thanks to the second day I knew I loved it there and that switching job will be the right move.
This was before Covid, though. Today this probably wouldn't work anymore, with most people working from home and most meetings being remote anyway.
What I am saying is: it's not just for the company that hires you, it's also for yourself. Expecially if you have to quit another job first.

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