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--- Jack [email protected] wrote:

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--- Leo Mauler wrote:

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Don't know much about this being a good way to

find

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out about prospective employees. Some of us are very good at bluffing: about four years ago I had never touched Microsoft Excel, and yet I scored 88% on

the

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test for it for some temp agency.

If you scored 88% on a programming test, I certainly wouldn't hire you. That would mean that someone would have to fix more than 10% of your code. Not an exciting prospect. But I was actually referring to tests that I would create using test building software that comes

But a test like this on Excel tests whether you know some shortcut key combos or do you only click on the little pictures. If you know key combos like Ctl+x for cut, then you will be faster and more productive. A test like that also marks you down if you try to search thru the drop-down menus like File, Edit, and Tools. You only get a score for the task if you pull down the RIGHT menu on the first try. If someone got 100% on this test, I'd assume they can write their own macros to complete tasks and can remember exactly how to do mail-merge in whatever version of Office. MS tends to change how to mail-merge from version to version or move it around in the menus.