Apparently, Linkedin is using their resources at Linkedin Learning (formerly Lynda) to create pass/fail tests with adaptive questions for specific skills. If you pass the timed test and find yourself in the 70th percentile you receive a badge.
You can choose whether you’d like to display this badge on your profile to represent that you’ve passed the assessment for that given skill. If you don’t pass an assessment for a given skill, you’ll be able to retake it one more time after three months and failed tests are not displayed on your profile.
This re-imagination of skills is far more reliable than someone checking a box on your profile to endorse a skill. I do like the idea that skills on LinkedIn profiles are becoming reliable but will recruiters take the time to consider this? There hasn't been much discussion about this on the web. Please let me know what you think.
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No I do not believe they will take the time a consider it but for those using the platform to find new hires it makes it "more" effective. Its a social platform and as any we deal with various algorithms to be seen.
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After giving the test I felt my profile is being viewed more than it used to. I'm appearing in more searches than earlier.
Quizzes and exams just show that you know how to pass an exam, not the subject. Only fools deal in absolutes, especially recruiters who bank everything on test results. The world is not black and white, even though these capitalists seem to think it is. More fool them. Linked in quizzes - waste of time. It just gives jobs to jobsworths.
the thing i like the most about this is just that you know that youre better than 70% of all the other people that took the test
it doesnt mean that youre good or bad at that particular skill just that you did better than most other people
i also like how this system works to stop cheating, because if you can look up the answer anyone can
I'm wondering though about not being able to pass html. If more than 70% score a hundred percent and I miss one. I don't pass.
I took a few of these tests. I passed the first and thought OK, let's get a few badges or whatever, but the next two asked the most obscure unnecessary questions that no-one would ever actually use in real life development that I started to question myself and didn't fancy doing any more. Badly worded, obscure, and on one there were four different large code snippets with the difference between all of them one tiny part of one line, it took me ages to work out what the difference was!
Knowing some obscure, never used functionality/definitions doesn't make you good at your job; conversely, not knowing some obscure behind the scenes rhubarb doesn't make you bad at your job.
Almost one year from this post and I just recently finished a Visio examination with failing score, I have worked a lot with this and seems like it was enough for passing this kinda dumb questionnaire.
My concern is that those exams has been formulated by people outside the core fields related with the topics indeed.
I love this.
My honest opinion is this.
When your being asked a paragraph long
Question; the entire stack of answers is over a paragraph long; you’re given less than two minutes. Then where does that leave you time to formulate a proper answer? Unless you guess for every question. These quizzes were obviously formulated by people with outrageous egos also very obnoxious
Who had time while sitting with their instruction manuals to figure how to make you feel as stupid as possible while not considering that in the real world. Guessing
Can make or break projects. And real world skill is not based on luck. But knowledge. Life is not a guessing game. It’s a game of logic and reason. And it takes more than mere seconds to answer these questions. Considering that it takes almost 2 minutes just to read the Question AND the Answer. I’ve used ProTools for years. And they are asking the most random and vague questions based on options you rarely use and the options rarely make sense given that in ProTools
You mostly create a universal template and rarely deviate from that setup because of time constraints and deadlines. It is the most efficient way. This quiz was written by someone who never could understand this
These tests are f***ed up.
Some of the questions are so big that you even don't have time to read and understand them. So it's more depends on luck than on real skill.
On other quizzes with I have 95-100% results, here - less than 70%, just due to lack of time. That's ridiculous.
LinkedIn believes that I don't know CSS3 despite 8 years of development experience and despite the fact that all my software works correctly and customers are satisfied. Yeah, well, LinkedIn is more obvious to you)))