Hah, Hah, Hah, Huh???? Should This Testing Humor Get A Failing Grade?
Remember what today is? No, it’s not Valentine’s day, you still have some more time for that date.
Today’s date is February 6, 2006. Why is that important for some companies? That is the date that OFCCP requirements regarding Internet applicants come into law. Lots of articles have been written already on this topic, including one by me for ERexchange.com, as well as other authors (e.g., Lisa Harpe).
But this column is about something else!
It is by Dale Dauten, a kind of hiring “guru,” who writes some interesting newspaper columns. Today’s edition attacks two popular assessment tools: 360 degree feeback (which he calls a 396-degree performance-review program) and employment tests used in hiring in general.
The dilemma he sets up involves a job applicant the manager fears will take a job elsewhere and an apparently rigid HR department that requires this 396-degree feedback program, in addition to a series of employment tests, which have the humerous names of IQ, EQ, CQ, and QQ.
The hiring manager wants to skip the typical steps in the hiring process; he argues that
Perhaps you could put the “exception” in Exceptional People by letting me hire one.
The HR manager argues that:
We strive to be flexible down here, Roger. So, yes, there is an exception process. We have a task-forcette that meets to review such cases. I can call a special emergency session for early April.
In other words, the HR manager is presented as slow to respond, thus hindering the hiring process. Guess how the story ends?
What do you think? Is Dauten setting up a straw man? How should we make exceptions?
Regardless, you may find the column amusing and worth sharing with your friends. Go here to read the entire column by Dale Dauten.
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