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Why Your Interview Should Include a Hands-On Work Sample
Most interviews test how well someone sells themselves, not how well they do the job. This episode digs into the growing body of evidence that work-sample tests — a 30-minute task that mirrors actual job duties — predict on-the-job performance more than twice as accurately as traditional interviews. We look at a specific case: a mid-size B2B software company that introduced a coding exercise for its support engineers and saw time-to-competency drop from nine weeks to five, plus a 30 percent improvement in first-call resolution. Lucas and Luna debate whether work samples can work for…
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