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What about hire by questionnaire? We used to ask for resumes only, but we ran into the same issue as OP where qualified candidates wouldn't have key items in th
by diafygi 10y ago
What about hire by questionnaire? We used to ask for resumes only, but we ran into the same issue as OP where qualified candidates wouldn't have key items in their resume, and unqualified candidates would have lots of things but end up failing during the coding interview. So we just started asking people up front what we wanted to know.
For example: http://goo.gl/forms/YICrUuz7XNjiTcId2 http://goo.gl/forms/YICrUuz7XNjiTcId2
Here's one of our software engineering forms. It's worked extremely well at filtering for technically qualified candidates. But we worry that we're still missing people because https://imgur.com/RIamYIZ https://imgur.com/RIamYIZ
- dpark 10y ago> But we worry that we're still missing people because https://imgur.com/RIamYIZ https://imgur.com/RIamYIZ Eh, that's a pretty reasonable questionnaire. If it was pages and pages, it'd be too much, but there's only 12 questions here (including the citizenship and email address questions) and I'm assuming you don't expect an essay for each of these. Someone who's indignant at the idea of filling this out is probably not worth working with. I have to say, I find the SSH question at the bottom odd. Who is this screening for? Are there people who hit all your other requirements but don't know how to use SSH? Would you actually eliminate someone for this, as opposed to spending 5 minutes introducing them to SSH (or 30 seconds sending them a link)?
- mjevans 10y agoMy question, seeing a form like that, is what is the resume field actually for? Would the resume be used for the actual screening/selection process, or is it instead just to get all of the other details that might be necessary later in the hiring process as a catch-all?