Recently I had to hire some IT staff for work, and since it’s difficult to gauge someone’s technical skills from an interview alone, I decided to create a short “quiz” or “exam” for the candidates to complete before their interview.

I intentionally made the level of the questions difficult for the sort of candidates I was expecting. As anticipated, no one got all of the questions correct. The better candidates managed to get around half correct and this was about the level that we wanted — too low and they were no good, too high and they probably didn’t really want this job anyway.

The reason for all of this blabbering is for me to link to the quiz for anyone interested to try. Print it out or whatever and see how you go.

Mike’s IT Quiz Exam Thing