5 Smart Tips for Tackling a Challenge-Based Interview  More
companies are choosing this approach to vet candidates. Are you
prepared?   Just when you thought you've heard it all when it
comes to interviews, you need to start preparing for another
type of evaluation. "Challenge-based interviews" are a trend
among human resources professionals, according to Elli Sharef,
co-founder of HireArt (www.hireart.com), a jobs marketplace that
uses online challenge-based interviews to vet applicants.
What's a challenge-based interview? Typically, this refers to an
interview where the employer requests the candidate to do a task
similar to what they would need to do in their job. The goal is
to see the candidate in action. For example, Sharef explains,
"If a business is hiring an engineer, they may present a coding
challenge to candidates, if they're hiring a social media
manager, they may ask candidates to create compelling tweets. If
it's an admin position, they may ask candidates to create a
flight schedule and hunt d