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In our organization responsibility is given to me to teach .net to our recruitment team (non technical), i need to design the entire training session.

They want a training so they can filter out some of the candidates at their level.

Please give me suggestion that what i should teach them in my training ?

+4  A: 

Make it clear that:

  • X years of experience with technology Y means nothing
  • Personal projects experience is just as valuable (if not more) than commercial work experience.
  • Screening should be focused on potential of a candidate (abiity and willingness to learn) rather than on immediate knowledge
Developer Art
You are right but what i am thinking like if person is having some years of experience in particular technology then he should be able to answer some fundamental questions regarding technology or the overall concept
Harryboy
That's never gonna work. You can't have a professional interview conducted by non-specialists. It will take them several years of intensive programming practice before they might be able to participate in an interview process.
Developer Art
I agree with Developer Art: The best you can do here is come up with a set of multiple choice questions. The not technical interviewer can mark these without knowing the content of the question OR the answer. Different questions can be weighted so it obvious if some basic questions were wrong but harder questions "guessed" correctly.
Binary Worrier
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Only a very dumb manager force people like you to teach somebody something they actually do not need. You company is awful.

Vasiliy Borovyak
I downvoted this answer because you are not answering the question, you are commenting on it. Thats what comments are for.
Binary Worrier
Sorry then.....
Vasiliy Borovyak
We live and learn dude.
Binary Worrier
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First of all don't do it. Recruitment team won't understand it. Second, the knowledge of .NET depends on the position. Sometimes candidates that are good programmer but have done .NET for a bit are better suitable than crappy programmer's that can hack stuff in .NET. Screening can be by references from the candidates previous employers.

PoweRoy
+2  A: 

In my opinion, don't teach them .Net since it won't help: A recruitment officer doesn't need to know the difference between a class and a struct when he/she wants to filter candidates.

What they need to know is the job requirements and the technical skills required for this job, and some "buzz words" that may help pick out the candidates.

For example: Is the job server-side oriented or client-side? Depending on the answer, give them some buzz words on that subject, so they'll know to ignore those who are more oriented to what you don't need.

In addition, I think it would help to explain them how to identify who's a "star" according to what they've already done, and is good enough to adapt to your job requirements. Not those who write "Fast and self learner" but according to their "knowledge portfolio", how versatile are their previous jobs, etc.

Good luck!

Nir
good suggestions...i was also thinking on the same line
Harryboy