Job Screening , Pre-employment screening tests, Pre-employment tests and skill assessment

Spring interview questions

Skill-Guru — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:21:56 +0000

Here are some good links to interview questions

Spring interview questions
Spring transaction interview questions
Hibernate Interview questions
Java Interview questions
CCNA Mock Test
PL/SQL interview questions
SEO Interview questions
QA interview questions
ASP.NET Chart Control Test

JSP & Servlet Interview Questions

Skill-Guru — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:05:06 +0000

Skill-guru has added to jsp and servlet interview question. They covers Servlets 2.3 , JSp2.1 and JTL1.0

Pre-employment tests

Skill-Guru — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:51:37 +0000

geekEvaluation offers Pre-employment screening tests . geekEvaluation pre employment tests can be configured from subjects available in repository .
Use also has flexibility to create own tests
Visit the site to know more about pre emloyment screening tests

WolframAlpha can challenge google ?

Skill-Guru — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:27:57 +0000

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.

Monitoring test candidate

Skill-Guru — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:17:48 +0000

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

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Laptop Hunters Ad From Microsoft

Skill-Guru — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:45:32 +0000

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

Bank Stress test results

Skill-Guru — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:40:23 +0000

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

Online skill eveluation

Skill-Guru — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:12:20 +0000

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?

A very genuine questions from customer perspective.

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

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

Tools for a startup – Part 1

Skill-Guru — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:41:43 +0000

One of the friends asked me when I was developing geekevaluation as to why I chose java.
My response was that I chose java because I know java.
Even if there was something which was better ,I would not have developed the application in a new language or platform because I want to work on my business plan , not learning new skill.There is your first tool

1. Chose the language you are comfortable with : Start your product development with the tools and technology you are comfortable with. Remember the idea here is to get a product which should validate your business idea, not your technical skills.

I also prefer Java because the power it gives in terms of open source. There are so many tools , servers , IDE free of cost to help you get started.What a beautiful thing software development is .
Can you imagine where you can start your business by not spending a penny ?

2. Source control options : I would imagine that you are a bunch of guys who are working at different locations.You could also have outsourced project to some small company and now you want to manage source code where all of you could do check in/check out.
I looked around a couple of ones.CVS dude is a popular options these days if you want to use CVS as a respository.
If you prefer to use SVN over CVS the code spaces & unfuddle are good choices.
For me the ideas was to keep the cost at minimum so I looked at code spaces and unfuddle.
I had some issues with code spaces repository when working with eclipse after 6-8 months so then swicthed to unfuddle.

3. Online meetings : Another important tool to hold weekly meetings .I am using dimdim for now which is free for 5 users. I am ok with the quality so far(there is voice lag in it).
Another tool suggested by one of the friends wasMikogo . Here you can share your dashboard.

I will cover hosting,email options in next post