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Asking them about their actual experience is a fantastic question. Sounds like you got a good picture of their prior experience doing so. Asking them to self r
by tybit 7y ago
Asking them about their actual experience is a fantastic question. Sounds like you got a good picture of their prior experience doing so.
Asking them to self rate themselves is useless however, as their answer showed.
- nkrisc 7y agoThey said the applicant had rated themselves on the resume. They weren't asked to rate themselves in the interview. That's how I interpreted the comment and I'm pretty confident that's correct.
- leetrout 7y agoI ask candidates to rate themselves so I know where to go with the first few questions. I ask for a 0 (never heard of it) to 10 (you made the thing or wrote a book on it) ranking and most people that have worked a couple years answer no higher than 5 or 6 but recent grads will say 8-9. Pure anecdata but supports other comments about not knowing what you don’t know until you’ve been around different subjects for a bit. Example: frontend design is self rated to a 6 but the person can not articulate the difference between raster and vector graphics (or doesn’t know what an SVG is or when to use one or not use one and vice versa).