> In most of the places I've worked where there are short-term contracts before full-time hiring, the employer has a far better idea of the skills and quality of the candidate.
At the place I work we offer paid internships to college students who haven't graduated yet. By the end of a summers' worth of work, we have a really good idea as to which interns we would like to hire full time, and we give them an offer on the spot (contingent on graduation), no interview needed.
Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews
by AlexCoventry on Sunday April 09, 2017 @07:32PM
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Contingent on graduation for ethical reasons, or because you still see the degree as a relevant signal on top of the insight gained from working with the candidate?
Well, you don't exactly "date" for years before getting a job. You're acting like people get married on a hunch, or that people don't work hard to present themselves as "marriageable." (Incidentally, it's also not clear to me that a 20-year marriage is a failure, and certainly not in this analogy)
In most of the places I've worked where there are short-term contracts before full-time hiring, the employer has a far better idea of the skills and quality of the candidate.