[154669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sat Jul 7 14:34:09 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120707181318.GF2221@hezmatt.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 14:33:10 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> wrote:
> * If you're going to have to carefully examine each candidate's answers
> *anyway*, why not just get on the phone screen with them in the first
> place, and get HR out of the picture? At least that way you're not
> wasting money paying for HR people, and you can do a far more in-depth
> interview because you're there, in real-time, to ask follow-up questions.
I don't know about you but my brain doesn't switch on a dime. I have
to *prepare* to conduct a phone interview. And afterward I have to
spool back up on whatever task I was working on. If a screening
question can cut many candidates who I'll know in 5 minutes aren't the
one, that saves me a lot more time than just the 5 minutes on the
phone.
Plus, frankly, I don't enjoy conducting interviews. It's necessary but
I find it stressful. Where I can avoid it with minimal risk of missing
the individual I actually want to hire, that makes me happy.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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