Re: How does one find employees, including trainees?

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Mike Sokoly wrote:
> Gotta agree with ya Tom!
> Why does the NY State License Class and State exam Teach AND TEST you
> for Basic Electricity including Ohm's Law? So you're OVER-qualified?
> Apparently they think it's important enough to LEARN for Security and
> Fire Licensing!

No, because it a moderately relevant topic which leads to problems
easily included on an exam.  It's not on their because you really need
to know it, it's on there to test your intelligence - "this will be on
the test, so learn it - now we'll see if you did"  If you aren't able
to handle that "test" assignment, they don't want you tackling the
challenges of real world problems.

I don't see any problem with teaching material like this to trainees
and testing them on it as part of a job-inspired intelligence test.
But that is very different than expecting them to know it when they
initially apply - it's largely unimportant and gets minimal attention
in school, but it's not a complicated idea, so an intelligent person
should be able to pick it up with a little instruction.