Seeing how someone really performs at work, even on a temporary project, is a much better gauge of what they will be like as a full-time employee than a job interview or canned employment test.

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Adrian Chen at Gawker did a fascinating interview with Amine Derkaoui, a former employee of a California-based outsourcing firm called oDesk that does this work for Facebook.

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Once you find a planner, interview him as carefully as you would, say, any key employee.

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In fact, 64 percent of employers in a recent CareerBuilder.com survey found social interview skills and the ability to communicate well as the most important assets in a potential employee.

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In an interview with police officers, prosecutors allege, he said his mother had been an Air France employee and he had falsified her ID card by adding his name, photo and status as a crew member.

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Mr. MOHAMMED YUSEF (Employee, British Broadcasting Company): They told me to have to wait for six months just for the interview.

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