Worked examples / Hiring: how many steps, and which ones
A work-sample test
The same 90 minutes and the same 120 candidates, spent on a task taken from the real work. It screens out most of those who could not do the job and few of those who could. On these figures it pays for itself.
It pays for itself
It costs $8,040 a month and gets back $9,282.
It costs$8,040a month
It gets back$9,282what it stops, and any fee
- Of the 35.1 candidates it screens out each month, 7.8 are candidates who could do the job: 22.2% of everyone screened out.
- Still getting through: 14.7 of the 42 candidates who could not.
- It costs the people going through it 180 hours a month, 52.6 of them from people who do not get through.
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How this answer was worked out
| Step 1 | costs $8,040, gets back $9,282: +$1,242 |
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What the calculator asks you
- How many steps, and how many people arrive
- What each wanted person is worth, and the share each step turns away
- The share it is meant to stop, what each costs, and the share each step stops
- What a step costs the people going through it
- Any fee paid by those who get through
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