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How to Measure Your Design Team’s Strengths and Weaknesses
D
esign teams are made up of people, and as we know, people can drive profits or create costly errors. When your design team is a mix of seasoned and newer individuals, and you add off-shore or subcontract service providers, understanding their individual skill levels becomes essential. Do you have experienced designers who keep making preventable mistakes? Or, do some of your 2+ year designers struggle to rise above tract or production home designs? The key to resolving these issues is testing and training.
By Thomas McAnally TheJobLine.com
Testing can include integrity assessments to gauge honesty and reliability, personality tests to evaluate cultural fit, and skills-based tests to measure what they know—and don’t know—about their assigned tasks and their potential for advancement. JobLine offers the latter (skills-based tests), and there are plenty of providers for the rest. If you could only give one test to a truss designer or design manager, JobLine’s Truss Design Skills Evaluation would provide the most information for managing your design department or making a hiring decision. This test was developed by a team of industry experts—including technical support and engineering staff from multiple truss design software companies, as well as design managers, senior designers, and owners of truss companies already using some form of testing. Moreover, JobLine has continued to refine this skills evaluation ever since our first betatest in the mid-’90s. The result is a Truss Design Skills Evaluation that covers eight areas of skills and experience, with the average score providing the benchmark against which individual results are measured. This test measures theJobLine.com, inc. Company: Name: Tools: Notes
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Basic Skills
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Math Skills
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Intermediate Skills
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Truss Design Concepts
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JobLine Sample Candidate
National Average: Years of Experience
MiTek, Construction Master
National Average: Score as of 12/19/2019
Candidate Score:
05/15/20
84.4% 13.73 81.1%
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Over the years, the evaluation has been revised to provide a wealth of information to employers when evaluating potential candidates and their team members. Thousands of individuals have taken it, and part of our measurement is to compare each test taker’s results to the industry average curve. The “Curve” shows how an individual’s nine skill/experience scores align with industry norms, helping us determine whether someone’s skills need improvement or if they have exceptional strengths in key areas that signal potential for advancement. PHONE: 800-289-5627
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