> From: Edward Ned Harvey [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:39 AM > > +1 > I believe the only way you can judge somebody's competence is to have > insight into their actual work. > > (tangent) I also believe you cannot predict a person's character during > interview or any "good times." Only when things start going bad, people will > show their true colors. The ones who lie or steal or or manipulate or sue... > Only can be found during bad times, such as layoff, or general stress, etc.
You can't even judge a person's competence reliably during an interview, much less abstract characteristics such as ambition, or personality, or the reasons why they made certain career choices in the past. And certainly much less if all you have to go on is pre-interview papers, such as resume and cover letter. If anybody is hiring on the criteria of judging the ambition of their candidates, I think the interviewer needs to be less ambitious. ;-) In a really very much improved optimistic world better than we live in, you might succeed at judging the candidates' core competency and fitness for a particular task. You certainly can't count on succeeding in judging your candidates more deeply than that. (Plus, if you try, you have to be careful about legal issues or discrimination.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
