> Is there any literature on portfolio-based hiring? From the world of higher learning, the emphasis on portfolios is well-known. The interesting thing to emph

> Is there any literature on portfolio-based hiring? From the world of higher learning, the emphasis on portfolios is well-known. The interesting thing to emphasize is that the focus is on long-term development - e.g. have you become a better researcher or teacher over time. Remember, we don't want someone with 7 years of experience if those 7 years were spent doing the same thing, not getting better/learning more skills. I think this is something that checklist-based interviewing fails to uncover. Behavioral-based interviewing (e.g. STAR) does better but it forces the candidate to know that this evidence of programming maturity over time is what is being probed for (if it is). Whiteboard-based interviewing is probably the best but it requires dedicated interviewing by engineers and there are flaws to it (emphasis on reducing false positives v. false negatives) > "In the section where I describe the various courses I have taught, I include several sentences that detail how both my successes and my failures in one course led to improvements in subsequent semesters. I refer to this development in my statement of teaching philosophy as well, but in the teaching portfolio I can point directly to the evidence of those improvements in sample syllabi." [1] > "In some ways, it's like a two-year-long take-home exam," says A. Mitchell Fraas, a graduate student in Duke's history department. When the system was introduced, in 2005, he and his peers could opt to complete either a portfolio or the traditional exams. Mr. Fraas chose the portfolio, he says, because it offered a measure of control and a permanent record of his progress. "I liked the sense of being able to see in a tangible format everything I was doing working up to exams," he says, "rather than blurting stuff out in a four-hour oral and never seeing it again, or scribbling something down on a 24-hour exam." Felicity M. Turner, a fifth-year graduate student in the department, says the portfolio gave her an opportunity to revise her papers and think through an issue until she was happy with the result. In the portfolio model, she says, "the responsibility is on you to formulate your own argument, so the process of creation is yours." [2] [1] http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/developing-an-effective-teaching-portfolio/32297 http://chronicle.com/blogs/onhiring/developing-an-effective-... [2] http://chronicle.com/article/Portfolios-Are-Replacing/9141/ http://chronicle.com/article/Portfolios-Are-Replacing/9141/