RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Simil ar

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Derk Ederveen [mailto:derke -at- accountview -dot- com]

> At our company, we ask candidates to write an instruction for the
> process of making coffee. They can do this at home, in two or three
> days:
> 
> "Describe clearly and concisely the procedure to make a pot of coffee,
> for someone with a normal level of intelligence, who for 
> whatever reason
> never made coffee before. Imagine someone finding a coffee making
> machine in a holiday cottage, who has to make coffee for the 
> first time
> using the instruction you have written, which lies next to 
> the machine.
> You are completely free in how you create this instruction. The reader
> has the coffee machine, coffee filters, a pack of coffee, a measuring
> spoon, scissors and a water tap. If you want you can explain your
> choices in an accompanying letter or e-mail."

Jeez..........
I'd have to buy a coffee machine.

I haven't made coffee in twenty?... thirty?... years.

I think I recall something about " and one for the pot".   Hmmm.


:-)

Kevin (who drinks green tea, but prefers hot chocolate... or any kinda
chocolate, really)

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