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			              How to Evaluate the Ability of a Candidate to Apply Knowledge in Practice?
MUNI DAVE, Business Consultant, India, Member

How to evaluate a person's ability to apply knowledge in his/her practice during an interview? Experience is, some persons talk a lot and are intellectually correct, but when time comes to provide results in practical work, he or she fails miserably. He/she can be as engineer, manager, GM or CEO.
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			                  			Testing Ability of a Candidate to Apply Knowledge in Practice

															Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands

The way you formulated your question ("…during an interview") might perhaps be stopping some people from thinking in the right direction. A selection interview has its merits (it's simple and cheap), but testing a candidate's ability to apply knowledge in practice is not its strongest point.

Organizations wanting to do that could explore various forms of TESTING and/or having candidates solve CASES. (This could even be in TEAMS). However such approaches are considerably more complex and expensive.

Then again, what is expensive if we are talking about selecting key employees for the organization?
			                  		
			                  			Testing Ability of a Candidate to Apply Knowledge in Practice

															NITANSHU NARULA, Project Manager, India, Member

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