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Subject:Re: job interview with tests From:"Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:16:20 -0500
On my last writing test, I was given an hour to write, using Word,
instructions to update your Windows display settings. I cracked my knuckles,
spit on my palms and went to work. I was offered the job the next day.
(Five months later they fired my behind -- I was bored out of my skull and
spent most of my time surfing the 'net, having exhausted all work-related
avenues to productivity. Best thing that ever happened to me... the boss
wondered how my test results could have been so good and my performance so
bad...)
If this is the only kind of elementary writing test you are given, be
prepared to ask lots of questions about the type and amount of work you will
be offered, what technologies you will be expected to master, what outside
and inside training opportunities will be available, what access you have to
SMEs, other departments' experts, internal documentation, and so on. (Either
that, or run like heck out of there.) If they are judging you on a
high-school level, you might want to be prepared for a high-school work
environment.
Sorry to by cynical! Once burned...
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