canyonblue
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bafanguy said:There are valid ways to determine if a person's fit for the job: put them in the sim, give them a written exam, background/qualification checks, LOR's ( I'm not even sure of the validity of this one ), etc. Basing a hiring decision on "...tell us why should we hire YOU ?..." or a storytime, organ-grinder's monkey dance simply doesn't float with what I know to be true about what it actually takes to do the job in question.
Go and rent the movie "Miracle". It is about the 1980 Olympic Hockey Team. In it Coach Brooks gives his team a B/S exam to take, just to see what response he would get. They could not see what taking this exam had to do with being on a hockey team. His plan for the team was he "wasn't looking for the best players, just the right ones".