geek evaluation

Imagine this you need to hire someone for a particular job position in your company. And for which you have received about 50 resumes,all of them look equally good. For you to Interview the 50 of them would be a tedious and time consuming task.

You also need to take care that you hire the right person for the job.Hiring the wrong person , could cost the company a lot of money. Business experts say that 95% of a company’s success is hiring correctly.

Most companies today resort to Skill Assessment which is a method to evaluate the candidate before making the hiring decision.Skill assessment tests, when used in conjunction with an interview and the manager’s intuition is one of the very good ways of finding the right candidate.

Today skill assessment tests could be given online and from any part of the world. Based on these results you can filter your candidates.

Geek evaluation is one such tool, which helps you to evaluate the skills of your candidate And this can be done in three easy steps:

*Step 1:*

Create your own tests from our existing question banks or upload your own questions!

* Step 2:*

Schedule the candidate for the tests. A mail is send to the candidate.

*Step 3 :*

Candidate logs on the site and takes the test.

Once the candidate has taken the test, the results are evaluated and emailed to you.

One of the best features of Geek evaluation is that it allows you to add your own questions and create tests from these questions. Also the questions presented to the candidates are at random and of varying levels of difficulty

Based on these results you can choose maybe the 5 or 10 best candidates and then call them for an interview.Thus making the whole hiring process so much easier

May 28 had been a pretty exciting day for tech industry . There were 2 big news .

1. Google unveiled its stealth project Google Wave. Although google wave is not open to public yet but looking at the preview of it is sure to get you excited. So what is google wave ?

Google Wave is a in browser communication and collobration tool. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client.

More about google wave here .

2. Microsoft its search engine Bing . With the bing came a joke “But it is not google”

There was so much hype around the bing but on the day of the laucnh , looked the site had real issues.

But we need some real challenge to google. It is getting smarter day by day and has established a near virtual monopoly.

I am not sure what microsoft is up to. On the one hand it has launched wave and on other hand it is talking to yahoo.

The news should be out pretty soon.

It is speculated that worlframalpha could be a potential rival to google. wolfram Alpha is a revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially on May 17 .

Wolfram Alpha, named after Stephen Wolfram, the British-born computer scientist and inventor behind the project, takes a query and uses computational power to crunch through huge databases.

Dr Wolfram points out that his brainchild is a “computational knowledge engine”, not a traditional search engine.

All said and done , there had been many people who had tried to challenge google but havebeen unsuccessful With more than 70% search market share , it is not easy to bring the might of google which not only has tons of cash but a massive database.

It is only the time will tell whether the British can regain the “lost glory” in Search.

While we were publicizing , geekevaluation , one of the renowned person posed this question

1. There are plenty of LMSs out there with this functionality and more – what makes your special?

2. You say the user takes the test on their own (you email them the link). This is more or less useless unless the test is conducted in a proctored environment (anyone can look up answers online, or ask a friend)

A very genuine questions from customer perspective.

My reply was
we are different in sense that
a) we allow users to customize tests by selecting more than one topic so for eg you want to hire a Sr programmer with skills in Java, Oracle and AJAX. You can create a test by combining these three topics and defining hwo many questions are required in each topic.
b) You can create your own tests and that would cost 75% less.
c) Talking about content , our question bank on technical topics is something which you might not find with others as we had designed questions based on practical experience , not just concept.

These 3 features are a big plus and differentiate us.

Yes it is true that the candidate can search for answers and call a friend. To tackle this

1.For now we disabled copy/paste so that user cannot do googling. In programming questions, it is difficult to call up some one , explain the code and get the answer. The shortest was to do is copy paste , find answer in google or run the code your self.
Disabling copy paste would solve some of these issues.
2.We had thought of proctored environment but that would be sometimes in future.
3.We are also thinking of tracking IP address to at least ensure that the candidate had taken the test from the city in which he resides.

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And let us not forget that this is just the elimination , not the selection criteria

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Microsoft has been using different tactic against Apple . The rising popularity of Macs and the domiance of Apple in iPod and Phone has threatened microsoft.

The latest ad features pre-law student Lauren and her mom, Sue, and these are the things they are looking for primarily in a laptop: speed, portability and battery life.

They end up with a Dell for $971.99.

This most recent ad comes about two weeks after Sheila bought a $2000 HP, and one day after Apple responded to the Laptop Hunters series with the Elimination spot

This is a not a very good period for people who are looking for jobs. But there is still some glimmer of hope for people in India. Companies like Tata capital are planning to have 128 exclusive branches in tier-I and tier-II cities by the end of this year.

Aditya Birla Financial Services registered a 36% growth in its revenues in FY09 and is hiring aggresively.

The trend of recruiting during these times is more company-specific than an industry phenomenon.

In US the biggest employer is Federal government which has lot of posts still vacant. Health industry is another sector which had seen some aggressive hiring although it has slowed down this quarter.

This is smart moves by the company who have planned for growth in the long run. During these times , companies get a lot a choices and employees are also willing to compromise on the salaries.

US govt was supposed to announce the stress test results of the bank on May 4 . Then they shifted the dates then to May 7 but slowly leaked the news of test results. Bank of America and citibank were talking couple of weeks back that they would return the TARP money but the test results shows that they need addition capital.
It is a big damn lie. Whom to trust ?
Zero hedge had explained in details what these tests are revealing what is the real situation

While we were publicizing , geekevaluation , one of the renowned person posed this question

1. There are plenty of LMSs out there with this functionality and more – what makes your special?

2. You say the user takes the test on their own (you email them the link). This is more or less useless unless the test is conducted in a proctored environment (anyone can look up answers online, or ask a friend)

A very genuine questions from customer perspective.

My reply was
we are different in sense that
a) we allow users to customize tests by selecting more than one topic so for eg you want to hire a Sr programmer with skills in Java, Oracle and AJAX. You can create a test by combining these three topics and defining hwo many questions are required in each topic.
b) You can create your own tests and that would cost 75% less.
c) Talking about content , our question bank on technical topics is something which you might not find with others as we had designed questions based on practical experience , not just concept.

These 3 features are a big plus and differentiate us.

Yes it is true that the candidate can search for answers and call a friend. To tackle this

1.For now we disabled copy/paste so that user cannot do googling. In programming questions, it is difficult to call up some one , explain the code and get the answer. The shortest was to do is copy paste , find answer in google or run the code your self.
Disabling copy paste would solve some of these issues.
2.We had thought of proctored environment but that would be sometimes in future.
3.We are also thinking of tracking IP address to at least ensure that the candidate had taken the test from the city in which he resides.

Click here to view our features .

And let us not forget that this is just the elimination , not the selection criteria

Please click here to follow the conversation

While we were publicizing , geekevaluation , one of the renowned person posed this question

1. There are plenty of LMSs out there with this functionality and more – what makes your special?

2. You say the user takes the test on their own (you email them the link). This is more or less useless unless the test is conducted in a proctored environment (anyone can look up answers online, or ask a friend)

A very genuine questions from customer perspective.

My reply was
we are different in sense that
a) we allow users to customize tests by selecting more than one topic so for eg you want to hire a Sr programmer with skills in Java, Oracle and AJAX. You can create a test by combining these three topics and defining hwo many questions are required in each topic.
b) You can create your own tests and that would cost 75% less.
c) Talking about content , our question bank on technical topics is something which you might not find with others as we had designed questions based on practical experience , not just concept.

These 3 features are a big plus and differentiate us.

Yes it is true that the candidate can search for answers and call a friend. To tackle this

1.For now we disabled copy/paste so that user cannot do googling. In programming questions, it is difficult to call up some one , explain the code and get the answer. The shortest was to do is copy paste , find answer in google or run the code your self.
Disabling copy paste would solve some of these issues.
2.We had thought of proctored environment but that would be sometimes in future.
3.We are also thinking of tracking IP address to at least ensure that the candidate had taken the test from the city in which he resides.

And let us not forget that this is just the elimination , not the selection criteria

Please click here to follow the conversation