simon.crick (9/11/2013)
I agree 100% with the idea of a probationary period.However... you still have to decide which candidate to hire for the probationary period, and it is still 6 months wasted if you get the decision wrong.
Therefore, you still need some way to choose the best candidate, and I still believe academic qualifications are the most reliable indicator of long-term potential.
Sitting someone in front of SSMS will tell you how useful they will be on day 1, but not how useful they will be in 6 months or a year.
Simon
Still no guarantee that people will change after that 6 months to a year period and they become the employee from hell. I have seen them slyly work the system and the people they work for until they are in like a tick on a dog's behind. In the government sector it is much harder to get rid of them then. It's not impossible, just much harder.:-D
"Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"