{"id":2610,"date":"2017-07-11T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2017-07-11T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:16:56","slug":"really-a-four-hour-timed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2610","title":{"rendered":"Really? A Four-Hour Timed Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to be able to <em>talk<\/em> to an actual person at the company? Does this anonymous employer have any <em>idea<\/em> how onerous a demand that is on someone&#8217;s schedule?<\/p>\n<p>Demanding a four-hour time investment just to be able to speak to a human, even a personnel droid, is bad enough. Demanding it be in the form of a timed on-line exercise that cannot be paused takes the cake. Now it has to be four <em>consecutive<\/em> hours, blocked off in one&#8217;s schedule. That&#8217;s nearly as big a time commitment as a half-day on-site interview!<\/p>\n<p>And realize, I do poorly on timed exercises. My style is to shelve things and think about them &#8220;in the background&#8221; for a while while working on other things. Timed exercises are fundamentally incompatible with that technique. So it&#8217;s hardly a surprise that the number of job applications that <em>have<\/em> gone further as a result of attempting such things are, in my case, exactly zero.<\/p>\n<p>With those kind of odds, you can bet I am not falling over myself in eagerness to start the exercise. I may still attempt it, but frankly, there&#8217;s things right now I can do that have more promise than this particular time sink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to be able to talk to an actual person at the company? Does this anonymous employer have any idea how onerous a demand that is on someone&#8217;s schedule? Demanding a four-hour time investment just to be able to speak to a human, even a personnel droid, is bad enough. Demanding it be in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-hunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}