How many times have you requested a hiring manager do a work test for you? For what types of roles? Did you compensate them for their time?
The basic employment relationship is:
Firm pays wages.
Employee does work.
This is asymmetric because the firm’s obligations are typically very fixed: they have to pay exactly $X every two weeks or they will get in a lot of trouble very quickly. In contrast, what is demanded from employees is typically a lot more nebulous. The firm can’t easily know how talented the candidates are, or how hard they will work. If the perform badly it is costly to replace them. So a work test provides them useful information.
This isn’t the complete analysis. The interview process is often two-way, especially for positions where the employees success will depend on the success of the team. But asking the hiring manager to do a two hour task is probably not going to give you very much useful information about that.
How many times have you requested a hiring manager do a work test for you? For what types of roles? Did you compensate them for their time?
The basic employment relationship is:
Firm pays wages.
Employee does work.
This is asymmetric because the firm’s obligations are typically very fixed: they have to pay exactly $X every two weeks or they will get in a lot of trouble very quickly. In contrast, what is demanded from employees is typically a lot more nebulous. The firm can’t easily know how talented the candidates are, or how hard they will work. If the perform badly it is costly to replace them. So a work test provides them useful information.
This isn’t the complete analysis. The interview process is often two-way, especially for positions where the employees success will depend on the success of the team. But asking the hiring manager to do a two hour task is probably not going to give you very much useful information about that.
I’ve not done it before, but if I was hiring and a strong candidate asked me to do it, I would!