>Also, if you're only giving real-world work tasks, do you screen at all for basic competence first? I've done both with and without. I honestly found it hard

>Also, if you're only giving real-world work tasks, do you screen at all for basic competence first? I've done both with and without. I honestly found it hard to make judgments about what effect what I was doing was having on the hiring funnel though. If you're talking about that rather than later stage hiring then yes, I agree it's a different kettle of fish.