Marxxx:
lols...I will ensure I avoid such task next time. Seeing people staring at me trying to impress me makes me uncomfortable....lol...and then they are giving you this rehearsed look. I feel it's time wastage. I will prefer the Hr ends all recruitment processes at their end....As much as organisations believe in Team work, I find it uncomfortable.

jaybee3:


Just accept the correction already. The answer is 4 not 10

Mrlekan07034617:



Hello Ma'am I see no wrong with what op did, for crying out loud those guys are graduate and this mathematics question is damn to cheap for 4 of them to Bleep up.

We all did mathematics in school @least to 'o' level stage. Forget it when it comes to job interview u expect anything, and besides the Op too needs not to confirm people of poor/low reasoning which might tarnish his records.

We understand the terrible situation out there when it comes to Job hunting but still the Op just did what he had to do.

Marxxx:
I spent all my time in the university studying fish ponds...you see if the trainees feel they are not sound numerically why do they want to become financial experts? don't shield mediocrity. I studied Fishries and had guys that studied Economics and Finance, but I wasn't daunted. The position requires excellent numerical ability......

Mrlekan07034617:



Hello Ma'am I see no wrong with what op did, for crying out loud those guys are graduate and this mathematics question is damn to cheap for 4 of them to Bleep up.

We all did mathematics in school @least to 'o' level stage. Forget it when it comes to job interview u expect anything, and besides the Op too needs not to confirm people of poor/low reasoning which might tarnish his records.

We understand the terrible situation out there when it comes to Job hunting but still the Op just did what he had to do.

zeezy1:

No, I won't

Snipes009:
Haha....Mr. Versatility dey give excuse. What old lecture note? Lol. You see how dumb I just made you look? Now you don't have time, but I thought you have read wide. You still have some 56hours more to answer the damn question. Go gather all your superiors and professors. You are free to cheat sef. If you answer it, I'll give you N500,000. On my life!

Tacticalmind:
So, I, personally don't care the methods you employed in testing whatever the aspect of their intelligence you're testing. However, what I care about is your arrogance and attitude. If you work in my department, I would sack you for your attitude, even if you're the best I've got. And I'll always give you a bad reference or correspondence as the case maybe. Working is not just about your efficiency in working alone, it has a lot to do with how you work with your team and from what you've said here, you're obviously not a team player. Those that you work for, if they're really professionals, would have sacked you. Or, they're just tolerating you.

kolaaderin:


You are very wrong, Marxxx was just incompetent cos much more is expected from him by the applicants, but he lost it with an elementary math as a question because he himself was so empty not knowing what to ask after over an hour of notification. this can only be justifiable if he gives about 10 of similar questions based on time and take an average response. he simply failed them because they could outshine him on the job.

RiloKiley:

I concur with this.
Most people are simply venting their frustration of not having a job on marxxx. The question was simple enough.

Tesiday:


So, students of Humanities will never pass recruitment test in your organization. so far its all based on arithmetic, i guess the language in your office is arithmetic too, your organization is an algebra company full of arithmetic.

dan2090:
Seriously!! @poster u are a terrible person. What can a BA (Bachelor of Art) do with that kind of math, by standard you are even Lucky to get dat ratio of success, because out of five, you are suppose to get a success rate of less than one, probably!! the girl dat passed might have missed her way into Art.
More so, is academic grade, really!! a trough measure for work success? SMH!

jaybee3:


He should have assessed them using competency based questions but then again he explained he wasn't prepared for the task hence the questionable decision making process he deployed to select the successful candidate

Besides, he should have tested their numerical reasoning skills with something financial trainees are expected to be familiar with e.g cross currency conversion mental maths

I interview programmers from time to time and those that usually get the job aren't necessarily the best technically gifted but those with the right blend of technical ability and demonstrable people skills

Marxxx:
I received a call from the Hr unit that they are sending 5 Trainees to me for confirmation. I was surprised because they didn't give me a prior notice. When I Queried the lady from the Hr unit she said the Senior Partner (HOD) contacted them that he will travelling to the UK that I can go ahead with the confirmation.

I was a bit nervous because I find it difficult relating with people, what do I ask them? Moreover I have too much on my hands already. I told Hr to give me an hour so that I can coordinate myself ....The truth is if you confirm a trainee and He/she under performs, it tells badly on your record. Here I am always striving to maintain a spotless record now this challenge doesn't look good.

Exactly an hour later Hr unit called again that they are on their way, I told her to take them to the conference room.....30mins later I joined them Lo and Behold I saw 5 well dressed gentlemen and ladies 3 guys and 2 ladies. I stared at them and they were looking back at me (which kind witch be this I said to myself) They thought I was testing them truth is I don't even know what to say or ask....."tell me your names I started".....after all the blah blah.....i went through their cv's it was good. 3 had first class. it was B.A trainee, I looked at their aptitude test performances read their essays great; yet I didn't know what further qstns to ask. So I wrote down a simple arithmetic on the board and I gave them 90s to solve. Only one got it right within the time frame (A lady!!!!; she bagged First class from Reading University UK). I thanked them for their interest in joining us. I sent my remarks to Hr and they were shocked. Hr Manager had to call me explaining that they have spent so such on the recruitment exercise and approving just one means they have to continue the exercise. I simply told him Mr ***a** you can confirm the rest.

This was the simple problem I wrote on the board.

€/€ - €/6 = €/12......what is the value of €?

So I am asking you, how good are you with basic reasoning?

Marxxx:
Lol...Complaints have done no one any good? There is no test that seems fair as long as you didn't scale through. Talking about personal evaluation; I don't think there is anyone (Nigerian) that have risen so fast as I did except few Asian guys... I will advise you to strive to be better in your endeavours....

E383:
Lol.

OP. You are an idiot.

If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live all it's life thinking it is stupid.

You just succeeded in making some smart Nigerians have a terrible day.

Teddeebear:


what you did is pure wickedness, you may think you are smart.

but you are being wicked to yourself, the younger generation and your company.


firstly, i want to believe these applicants did aptitude test, bringing this up at this stage would have made sense if you wanted to pick just one person.
Seems you don't know what it takes to organize recruitment. if it was my coy, you will be fired.

Exams has never been the true taste of knowledge, if you are really an hr, you should know this.

Further more, that kind of question at this stage of recruitment can unsettle anyone.

I'll stop here, i have better things to attend to, repent or you will reap what you sow, don't think that those who graduated with first class are fools if that was what you wanted to proof.

Mrlekan07034617:


Look here bro, I really won't exchange words with you because its very obvious that you are either one of the jobless old fool ranting around nairaland or you are just some tramp with a lazy man's job typing trash.

I don't need to check or search for your level of education but would tell you perfectly here that if you've got no job yet try and pray God grant you MERCY for one or rather you have one and not really comfortable with it, then do the needful.

I owe you no obligation keep answering questions from little kids like you, if you always like to place your anger on people who will do nothing than tell you blatant truth then you still have a lot to go in developing your orientation.

If you really want to do some tackling, then PM me and let's do it man to man, I don't fall for such trash games of yours on a public forum.

Once again try calm your nerves because it won't take you anywhere, go pour some chilled water on your head and relax because your ranting HERE doesn't really change matters.

Finally, HRs of companies here on nairaland won't see your ranting and change their methodology of selection of recruits. You can continue to quote me and I expect your response soonest

Shalom!!

Snipes009:
Lmaooo! Now, you are the one ranting, not me. Fyi, I own two companies where I can give you a good job that'd make your whole family rich. The question I asked you is being currently solved by a team of engineers and researchers in one of my companies. Those are people with brains, trying to develop a new method to measure wrinkles on packaging materials for some of our products, which I'm sure you'd have come across in Nigerian stores before or perhaps, if you have been to foreign countries. Anyway, for me offering you N500,000 to solve a question (oh, you want me to double or triple that? I can) and you couldn't, instead you are here ranting, shows that your very 1st comment which I quoted, is a fallacy! See nigga, you can read as wide as you can, get versatile as versatile can be, but you can't know it all. One arithmetic question shouldn't be used to judge, especially a group of 5 prospective job seekers who has come that far. If the company only wanted one of them cos the vacancy is for one, then fine. But the opening they have is for 5 and those guys are the best 5. You wouldn't be able to relate to this since you haven't seen as far as I have or employed hundreds of people as I have - you are still puerile in your thinking ability.

NB: MR. VERSATILITY, you still have some scores of hours to answer the damn question for NGN 1,500,000. ((((I don't mind you seeking help from your "I too sabi and I dey read wide" advocates. Sha assist my company get to the bottom of this issue of wrinkles on packaging materials ))))).....Mothafucka

bezimo:


Please dont channel your displeasure of the Op assessment method of using basic algebra to assess the candidates towards me, i dont see anything wrong with the question or the method.Its not my fault or any persons fault that a graduate cant answer the high school maths question, afterall every graduate is supposed to have passed maths with at least a credit in high school even if he/she is to study History or English in the University.

nouvelle:
@ Marxxx,

I can understand the position you were in and the pressure you were under and the fact that you didn't want to dent your record but what you asked them should have been part of the aptitude test, since 5 out of 6 failed, you should have asked them all an interactive question, to see how well they hold their own. We all can't be good in all aspects, no matter how 'sharp' someone is, it's difficult to get all questions right when under pressure.

My question is this: the lady you confirmed based on her quick response, what's the guarantee that she won't under perform on the job and still dent your record or is solving mathematics part of the job function?

Always give people second chances because you may need it yourself too someday

My thoughts though. Enjoy

Modified: @Marxxx, because I kept seeing people referring to your other post, I decided to read it. Having read it, I am even now more certain that you shouldn't have brushed the trainees off the way you did. You are trying to push your girlfriend into a job, you feel she has the potential but you said yourself that she has bad village accent and has refused to reinvent herself. So how would you feel if someone refuses to see her potential at an interview in one of the companies you know their hidden slots as you claimed and is fixated on her accent and refuses to employ her. Then you also stated that the first time you went to Lagos was for job interview and you did well at the interview but also had terrible accent but you were employed inspite of it and you have now worked on your accent Abi? And you talk well now. So if someone looked beyond how well you did at interview but was also fixated on your accent would you be where you are now?

It boils down to the same thing, give people second chances mbok (as udysweet will say)

Aremu01:


@op,I read your very first post on nairaland about the dilemma with ur woman , I can see you didn't search for job for long, so u don't know how it is out here.
U don't know the level of unemployment n the depression and hardship faced by jobless graduates.
Yes u conveniently dashed the hope of those poor guys.
Did you even consider it might be tension that made them fail? U gave them 90secs.
Did it not occur to use another question to judge.
I am sorry to say,u re very wicked.
Eleda awon omo yen a ja
Lest u forget, u ll some day have kids n dr destiny ll also be at another person's mercy.
Do you have conscience at all?

RiloKiley:

I concur with this.
Most people are simply venting their frustration of not having a job on marxxx. The question was simple enough.

Jwhizzy:
Dear OP, I have three things to say.
1. If you were in the shoes of these kids and you were judged based on what I've seen of your written English on Nairaland, I bet you will have been bounced.
2. Mr Financial Analyst. Do you have CFA?
3. In your role, you will have overtime been able to determine the top key traits required by an associate trainee to succeed in your organisation. A smart 'oga' would have considered channelling his assessment around testing these traits rather than setting JAMB. Or what do you think?