Thursday, February 5, 2009
Assessment Test
There are many different ways that companies go about interviewing future employees. Earlier in class we used the 30 second elevator speech to evaluate team leader candidates. All of the candidates had 30 seconds to impress us with their leadership story. The next day in class we used another interviewing technique. We did the group assessment test; for this test a group of 12 potential team leaders were given ten minutes to complete a task and the rest of the class had to evaluate them. The repeating pattern with all three groups was that right when they got the task they huddled together to come up with an answer. They forgot that the class was evaluating them and we couldn't evaluate them when we couldn't hear or see them. Finally, with a little help from the class most groups started to turn around and make sure the class was involved. The main point that I got from this assessment was that when I am in the same situation in the real world to turn towards the evaluators and let them hear my thoughts.
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ReplyDeleteI was a little disappointed but this blog post. Actually the post in itself was not bad but I did feel that you could have dwelled into a little more detail about the various methods etc used by companies to interview people that Professor Fienberg went into in some detail. I feel that although you mentioned it in the start, you kind of forgot about it for the rest of the blog. Even when you did go ahead and elaborate on the class activity which involved the leaders being evaluated by us I felt that you could have gone into a little more detail. Much like all of your other blogs, the ideas that you choose to discuss in your blog are spot on, but I felt that in this particular blog you could have done a lot more in terms of how much detail you put into the blog.
I must however add, that in all reading all your blog’s I did find it hard to pick 1 weak one, because I did like all your blogs and felt that you truly understood what Fienberg is trying to teach us.