Re: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

This doesn't surprise me.  Without time to become familiar with the
subject of the text or its intended readers, unless your "first draft"
consists of the instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich, programming a VCR or other similarly everyday process,
it's not really possible to determine how randomly entered facts
should be "structured."  In my last two companies, if you didn't
already have a technical background in their particular fields, you
wouldn't have been able to make any sense at all of a typical user
manual's TOC.  In the absence of background information, the
writing candidate will instinctively address the one area of default
familiarity.  This is why I said that just about every "writing test"
I've ever seen or heard described in one of these forum threads
inevitably ends up sounding like an editing or tools test.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Burton" <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com>