Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "How I avoid the awkwardness of job interviews: what are your thoughts?" video.
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Louis you're making one major mistake in hiring. All of what you've described is only good for hiring people, who already did the stuff. Problem is, fewer and fewer people are available, because there are careers out there, that will pay better than board repair. Meanwhile, you have a bunch of young, agitated people in the market, who seek their first jobs and can't find any, so, they don't buy stuff. So by doing this "industry standard" hiring practices, all be it streamlined to the actually useful stuff, you're depleting your potential employee pool, while not helping it to refill, thus increasing the wages you have to pay for new hires, and at the same time, lowering the pool of your future customers, because nobody's gonna need repair, if they couldn't get a job to get the money to spend on a thing to repair.
I'm quite certain, that your hiring procedure is a lot more effective and, frankly, better experience for the employee than most, but it fails to identify the guy, who actually want's to learn board repair. So what you should do, is watch his reactions and if he show's interest in to "why did my attempt fail?" or "what was wrong with the board then?", you should hire him and train him. Sure, he might not linger, but then we're talking about ineffective retention policies, not about hiring nor how expensive that employee is.
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As for, whether your system of hiring is exploitative, it can be. Key is, what is the job about? If you let a guy fix a board and he fixes it, hell even if he worked for you for one day, I'd say that's fine, as long as the work is not for only one day or one timer in a project. With you it's fine, because you have actual paying job (and you could pay for that one day at reduced or even full rate) lined up after the interview. If I were a director, hiring a cameraman, I'd go with him somewhere and let him film me, se how he handle's the gear. This is fine, because there is this movie, he's going to film when hired. But then there are cases such as those, Joshua Fluke point's to, where a company let's a junior developer build a database or a site, uses that site with little to no alterations and doesn't hire the guy. That is exploitative.
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