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SarahV2008
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Hi all,

Next week I’m doing in-person interviews with some candidates for a brand new LMS Coordinator position. I’ve done phone interviews with both and now it’s time to bring them in to meet with a few other people, plus do my final interview. During my time I’d like to test their knowledge by having them complete some tasks or projects. I’m wondering if anyone here has done something like this.

 

Thanks,

Sarah

Best answer by dklinger

​@SarahV2008 - ok - sorry about the delayed response here, but as my colleague ​@KMallette suggested - learning analytics is a nice one because it is a newer tool in the mix of things.

I would slide towards a few basics to ensure that they can demonstrate fundamentals. As you work the idea, if you are going to have them truly demonstrate in your instance or sandbox impacts aspects of the approach.

  • Ask a person of working with the CLOR versus building courses directly (the benefits and decisions about why you would want to do that.
    • You may want to explicitly tell them to build a course with the CLOR and never mention Central Repository to see if they get it
  • I would say have the person demonstrate creating a colored “floating” box with text in it with HTML
    • This should help demonstrate if a person gets “modern/responsive” design
    • I would push with them that they need a separate stylesheet (as many styles are applied centrally with the platform)
  • If you are a BIG ILT shop, asking the person to demonstrate setting up two concurrent sessions
    • You may want to push on them that they need to leverage a calendar widget on a page
  • Permissions with pages/menus/catalogs should be a huge story - ask the person how to troubleshoot an error for a person would be a key in my opinion
    • A more advanced topic along these lines would be to allow two groups to see the same catalog widget but to be served up different catalogs - this should be a rather standard practice for those LMS admins that want to save time on building pages.
  •  Ask them to use the Reporting tool to do something that the New Reports cannot do effectively OR vice versa (New Reports for example allows a person to order the columns is but one of the benefits)
  • More generically, you may want a person using SQL to devise a SQL statement for a targeted audience that they make up - to tell you how they would get to report on a subset of a subset. This used to be a standard question for us.

None of these are trick questions.

If you want to go along the line of trick questions - well there can be numerous ones.

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    ​@SarahV2008 - great question. And a tricky one as well, but extremely practical.

    A question for you - is everyone claiming to be knowledgeable in the Docebo platform?

    Because here is why - a “seasoned” learning management person that has claimed to have done work with an internal audience (employees and the enterprise story) will have a certain “order of operations” in mind to the shortest path for deploying learning to a target.

    I think there are typical questions that could be asked about said campaign that could have a person show you in an exercise that they have competence.

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    I actually now have an additional candidate, so I have two that say they are Docebo certified. (One just needs to take the test.)

    I’d be interested in the story. Do you have one? I’ve never had to hire for a technical position before, so this is really very new to me. Also, we only launched Docebo in Sept (2024) so it’s a really new program for me as well - and I only just recently fell into this part of my role. 

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    ​@SarahV2008 I just went thru this myself. After the initial interview, I was asked how I would use the Insights analytics to support his new business venture. Was a good thought experiment. He told me that I could use any approach -- bullett lists, PPT presentation, phone call, whatever -- and he only wanted me to spend <30 minutes. 

     

     

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    That’s a fantastic idea! Thank you!

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    ​@SarahV2008 - ok - sorry about the delayed response here, but as my colleague ​@KMallette suggested - learning analytics is a nice one because it is a newer tool in the mix of things.

    I would slide towards a few basics to ensure that they can demonstrate fundamentals. As you work the idea, if you are going to have them truly demonstrate in your instance or sandbox impacts aspects of the approach.

    • Ask a person of working with the CLOR versus building courses directly (the benefits and decisions about why you would want to do that.
      • You may want to explicitly tell them to build a course with the CLOR and never mention Central Repository to see if they get it
    • I would say have the person demonstrate creating a colored “floating” box with text in it with HTML
      • This should help demonstrate if a person gets “modern/responsive” design
      • I would push with them that they need a separate stylesheet (as many styles are applied centrally with the platform)
    • If you are a BIG ILT shop, asking the person to demonstrate setting up two concurrent sessions
      • You may want to push on them that they need to leverage a calendar widget on a page
    • Permissions with pages/menus/catalogs should be a huge story - ask the person how to troubleshoot an error for a person would be a key in my opinion
      • A more advanced topic along these lines would be to allow two groups to see the same catalog widget but to be served up different catalogs - this should be a rather standard practice for those LMS admins that want to save time on building pages.
    •  Ask them to use the Reporting tool to do something that the New Reports cannot do effectively OR vice versa (New Reports for example allows a person to order the columns is but one of the benefits)
    • More generically, you may want a person using SQL to devise a SQL statement for a targeted audience that they make up - to tell you how they would get to report on a subset of a subset. This used to be a standard question for us.

    None of these are trick questions.

    If you want to go along the line of trick questions - well there can be numerous ones.

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