Carpentry Skills Test, for potential employees?
Anybody have a written test or link to, for hiring/weeding out process?
thanks in advance ,Phil.
Anybody have a written test or link to, for hiring/weeding out process?
thanks in advance ,Phil.
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Nice!
I don't have one, though I did take one and it was really fun to find out what you do and do not know. "Oh I know it all!"LOL
Spend some time and make your own, that way it would be completely relevant to your situation.
good luck
Jim
While you are here:
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/pages/the-inspector-twentyfour.asp
This is what I was talking about before.
To get my first carpentry job, I had to pass a math test. The boss wrote down several addition and subraction problems in feet and inches. Guess I passed - I worked there for three years.
Hey Mr Engel
There was a post about interpreting you basement floor ideas from a while ago. Did you find it here and
How the Heck have you been?
Nope, didn't find the post. If folks have questions about anything I've written over the years, they should just email me. I'm really easy to find either through Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, or at the PDB forums. Heck, you can even find my phone number on line. I'm happy to talk to people.
I've been fine thanks, but since I work for the competition now, I just don't post here often. And since I gave up Breaktime, I've had time to build a garage, ride my bike, go to Belize, finish parts of my house, and master Mandarin, differential calculus, and Old Norse. It's amazing how many hours I must have spent here...
too much time spent..............
Yup, the bane to an educated man.
I sent you a link in our Messageing-take a look.
And don't worry about being seen here, it takes a minor explosion to become visible. We're working with Dan Morrison to attempt to make this thing work better. Too bad he's got other responsibilities that eat up his time.
I had trouble with calculus, shoulda tried that different.............ial stuff. Might have been able to figure that one out.
I believed you up to the Old Norse.
>>>I believed you up to the
>>>I believed you up to the Old Norse.
Hahahaha.....me too.
>>>And since I gave up
>>>And since I gave up Breaktime, I've had time to build a garage, ride my bike, go to Belize, finish parts of my house, and master Mandarin, differential calculus, and Old Norse. It's amazing how many hours I must have spent here...
Good on ya, Andy.
But you know, those years when you held forth as Chief Gavel Smacker were, IMO, the best that BT ever had (even better than the pre-catharsis crowd that we just lost). You were a tough moderator, but always clearheaded, fair, and involved in day to day conversation.
I've been around since the WebX days and my fondest memories to date are of the motley collection of knaves, fools and heroes from your time.
Happy trails....
http://intranet.caseredhouse.com/ck/Media/HRSTest.pdf
http://www.greaterpacarpenters.org/PDFs/Carpenters%20test.pdf
Being the family rebel, I don't do carpentry. Oh well.
This forum once had a thread where the poster had what I though was a brilliant screening test: he provided applicants with a set of plans and a stack of boards ... with an assignemnt to make a pair of sawhorses to those plans. Apart from the skills test, the test also tested the ability to read plans and follow instructions.
Actually without plans might tell you more.
I think I might just give them some wood, nails, screws and glue, and tell them to build thier own job stand / saw horse, and see what they come up with.
Their finished product will tell you what their work is like, and give you an idea of what they think they will be doing.
Yeah, and of course the plans were for a doghouse, just to make things interesting.
most times the look of a carpenters tools of the trade tells you how long or what skill of a tradesman your dealing with.
Maybe, I think you'd get lucky many times.
Clothes don't make the man.