Qualifying New Hires for Your Team

One of your biggest responsibilities as a Project Manager is to build a winning team. Building that team means recruiting and hiring the best people. In difficult economic times, resumes typically become extreme hyperbole. One study found that 70% of candidate resumes over stated their skill set mastery by a significant margin. Isn't it better to have a concrete assessment in hand to gauge a particular candidates skill set? Require your candidates take a skill set test. There are many candidate assessment web services. One thing they all lack is the ability to control the test taker candidate's access to sites that can help with the answers. A job candidate taking a web-based skills assessment has a world of reference material available to use as a "crib". The better policy is to use a stand-alone computer at your facility for testing candidates. My certification exam simulators, originally built as rich client Windows software to help PMPs, EAs and other IT professionals become certified can be customized to your specs as an in-house secure, proctored, test center for job candidate validation. A web service may be an "easy and high-tech" testing platform, but don't you want candidates who answer using their brain and not the brain of the "global community of the Internet"? Contact me, the frugal PMP for more information.