Thanks for summarizing your insights, I think it’s great that you enable others to benifit from those learning opportunities.
Up to 8 hours is a long time for a test task, and is more than most people will be accustomed to. While two applicants gave us negative feedback about this, we think the insight we gained into the applicant’s output ability and desire for the job well outweighs this time cost.
Maybe I overread it, but did you think about compensating the applicants for the work they are putting into this? The OPP did this, giving me the impression that they value my time (and the time of EAs generally). I can imagine that this might be too costly for smaller orgs. Though you could set the price lower than them (around 300$ for 8 hours, IIRC). Already a 50$ Amazon gift card would have left me with the impression that an org thinks about my opportunity cost to spend 8 hours on a work test.
For some reason we did not consider compensating them for their time (probably due to our generally tight startup budget), although we probably will in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
You could still compensate them! I’m sure they would appreciate your reaching out with retrospective compensation, although obviously the signalling value to this set of applicants would be lost.
Thanks for summarizing your insights, I think it’s great that you enable others to benifit from those learning opportunities.
Maybe I overread it, but did you think about compensating the applicants for the work they are putting into this? The OPP did this, giving me the impression that they value my time (and the time of EAs generally). I can imagine that this might be too costly for smaller orgs. Though you could set the price lower than them (around 300$ for 8 hours, IIRC). Already a 50$ Amazon gift card would have left me with the impression that an org thinks about my opportunity cost to spend 8 hours on a work test.
For some reason we did not consider compensating them for their time (probably due to our generally tight startup budget), although we probably will in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!
You could still compensate them! I’m sure they would appreciate your reaching out with retrospective compensation, although obviously the signalling value to this set of applicants would be lost.