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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Some people make it through school (even higher education) and are dumber than bricks
Right, and some dumb people get jobs, sure. However, if the grades they get from school aren't showing their knowledge instead of ignoring the qualification we should be working on improving it so it does.
I'm a fan of a conversational test, maybe 30 minutes of feeling out the candidate, while seeing how they work out problem solving. But that's just normal interview stuff.
At that point it sounds like a normal interview lol, which is good, that's all that should be needed
Absolutely agreed. However, hiring managers need to deal with the employees on the market today. Should we simply stop hiring until the educational problems are solved? Could be a while.
Of course not, but also an assessment for each and every employer isn't the way
I agree, see my other reply on this post. Assessments ARE sometimes necessary, however. In my field, we get a lot of self-taught software developers. I've had times where I think the candidate can do the job but can't quite put a pin in it - but the team needs a warm seat. That's when I pull out something stupid like FizzBuzz or a palindrome detector and ask them to pair program it with me, in the time span of the interview. If I have a choice, nobody will ever see a take-home assessment from me. I hated them when I was a junior, what kind of person would I be if I handed them out?