I am interviewing for a few roles as a Sr. Mgr. I’ve come across a role that wants to do a 4 hr assessment for business & personal return as well as set up a QBO file.

In the 20+ years I have never encountered this.

Not sure I want to take a 1/2 day of PTO to accommodate this.

Thoughts?

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Nope, that’s a hard pass for me

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No way. Dodge this bullet.

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They just want free labor. Do this for 100+ applicants and they’ve just saved 400 hours of payroll costs.

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I’ve done it once but was compensated pretty generously for my time.

I wouldn’t mind this! To be honest, SM doesn’t have to set up QBO. That’s bookkeeping job.

I've never seen or encountered this when looking for work. The only tests I have seen is a general bookkeeping/accounting test filled with maybe 30 questions for 30 minutes of time. If it were me, I would just pass, unless I was desperate to find a job.

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