Recruiting
Audition Project
An audition project is a task or assignment that a candidate is asked to complete in order to demonstrate their skills and fit for a particular role or company. It is similar to a take-home challenge, and may involve creating a design, writing code, or completing some other task that is relevant to the job for which the candidate is applying. Audition projects are used because it can be difficult to assess a candidate's abilities through traditional means such as resumes and interviews alone.
Curated Learning Resources
Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the BrightestToo many team members still fail after being hired. Jeff argues that the best way to solve this is to do a 2-day (paid) test of their work at the end of a recruiting process.
Take-home design challenges don’t work — here’s how to fix themTake-home design challenges, which are often given to candidates during the hiring process to assess their skills and fit for a company, have a number of issues, including being exploitative of candidates, not providing insight into a candidate's problem-solving abilities, and not giving a sense of how a candidate would fit in with a team on a day-to-day basis. Instead of using these challenges, Ari suggests bringing in candidates for a half-day collaborative design session, where they work on a problem with the team and can be assessed on their ability to think and work with others. If a take-home challenge must be used, Ari recommends setting reasonable time expectations, Giving Feedback to candidates, and being transparent about the purpose of the challenge.