[j2kun]

> Yet why do some marriages last forever (till death do us apart) while others fail miserably or crumble even after 20 years?

Well, you don't exactly "date" for years before getting a job. You're acting like people get married on a hunch, or that people don't work hard to present themselves as "marriageable." (Incidentally, it's also not clear to me that a 20-year marriage is a failure, and certainly not in this analogy)

In most of the places I've worked where there are short-term contracts before full-time hiring, the employer has a far better idea of the skills and quality of the candidate.

[ythn]

> In most of the places I've worked where there are short-term contracts before full-time hiring, the employer has a far better idea of the skills and quality of the candidate.

At the place I work we offer paid internships to college students who haven't graduated yet. By the end of a summers' worth of work, we have a really good idea as to which interns we would like to hire full time, and we give them an offer on the spot (contingent on graduation), no interview needed.

[AlexCoventry]

Contingent on graduation for ethical reasons, or because you still see the degree as a relevant signal on top of the insight gained from working with the candidate?