Assessments to hire instructional designers

Hello Aicha and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! 🙂 I’m interested to hear what experiences the community members have to share on the topic. I just wanted to chime in with a few ideas. When it comes to portfolios and projects, it really depends.

With portfolios, you usually can get a good sense of someone’s skills by seeing their work. But sometimes even after seeing their e-learning examples, you might want to dig in a little more into the details of their work. You can ask them about the challenges they faced, the solutions they found, and any goals they achieved. Also, what part of the project they were involved in. Did they restructure the content, create the graphics, and build the course?

When it comes to assigning a project for the interview, I’d only do this if you’ve narrowed it down to your top candidates. You don’t want to put every candidate through that process since it wouldn’t be a good use of their time or your time. If you do decide to assign them a project, make sure it’s simple and similar to what they’d do on the job. This gives the candidate a good sense of what the job will be like if hired.

Here are a few interview resources on the topic:

• Top 4 Tips for Interviewing an Instructional Designer
• How to Find a Freelance ID or E-Learning Developer

I hope that helps!