The Daily Life of a Rich Peasant's Boy in the Imperial Examination

Sun Dingnan then led the next applicant into the interview room.

The interview format is exactly the same. The interviewee first introduces himself, and then the interviewer asks questions one by one.

Of course, the questions can be different, but since everyone chooses to ask the same questions, it is convenient for comparison.

The process was very quick, one after another. They would only ask a few more questions if they were particularly interested. They would generally let us go after asking some formal questions.

Soon, more than a dozen applicants finished their interviews, and the corridor not far from the interview room became quiet.

After Sun Dingnan led the last applicant out of the yamen, he walked in and said, "Sir, everyone has left."

Sun Shan nodded and said to the interviewers, "Everyone, please present your scores to Master Zhang."

After the interview, everyone was rated into four levels: A, B, C, and D.

Now that the interviews are over, let’s summarize the results and see who has the highest score.

Here, there are only papers with names covered, so you don’t know who is who. But it’s different in interviews. The work you arrange yourself will inevitably get high scores.

After summing up everyone's scores and adding the scores of the test papers, the final score is obtained.

Whoever has the highest score will be admitted.

After receiving the scores from the masters, Master Zhang immediately calculated them.

Sun Shan and his group gathered together and talked about everything.

This was the first time that Mr. Xia, who represented the Xia Dianli faction, had experienced such an interview.

At first, I thought that all the candidates were selected by Lord Sun. Two days before the application day, I was notified to come and watch. When I entered the yamen, I was told that they were also interviewers and had to think of one or two questions to ask the interviewees.

Mr. Xia was dumbfounded and didn't know what questions to ask.

Fortunately, Master Zhang gave them some examples.

For example, if the applicant is successfully hired, how will he or she lead employees to produce more guano fertilizer? Another example is how to handle relationships between colleagues when encountering a quarrel.

Master Zhang asked them to think of more questions and ask whatever they wanted to ask, without any restrictions.

Mr. Xia nervously sat at the top, meeting the applicants, asking them questions that came to his mind on the spur of the moment, and listening to the interviewees answer questions from other interviewers.

Mr. Zhang said that after listening to the applicant's answers, if he thinks they are excellent, he will give them an "A", if they are good, he will give them a "B", if they are passing, he will give them a "C", and if they are terrible, he will give them a "D".

Interviewers are also reminded not to whisper or communicate with each other.

Score based on your own experience, and try to be objective, fair, and open.

So Master Xia graded each applicant according to his own ideas. Of course, when he met the "spy" sent by his own family, he would give him an "A" no matter how he answered.

That’s right, he, Master Xia, is so nepotistic.

Mr. Xia was thinking about whether he should follow Lord Sun's example and conduct written tests and interviews when he encountered a job opening.

This seems very exciting and fun.

Then he shook his head secretly. If the shop wanted to recruit people, it would not recruit from outside. It had more than enough "royal relatives" to hire, so how could it give opportunities to outsiders?

What's more, it's not safe to use outsiders, so it's more reliable to use it with your own family members.

Everyone felt the freshness of this recruitment.

The wealthy businessman, Mr. Ma, said with a smile, "Sir, this is a good way to hire someone today. He must be a top talent who can make our business bigger and stronger. Haha, not only can he do the test paper, but he can also answer our questions calmly. Very good, very good. The one who got a high score is a rare talent."

Mr. Zhu, a wealthy businessman, echoed the sentiment: "Sir, after so many tests, the one with the highest score must be the one we need. Haha, that's great, we can finally recruit the right person."

The wealthy businessman, Mr. Zeng, nodded repeatedly and said, "Sir, we will definitely be able to recruit the best steward today. He will definitely be a good assistant to Steward Sun. Haha, our workshop will surely prosper and reach a higher level."

The three wealthy brothers surrounded Sun Shan, chattering away, making small talk, and looking at him flatteringly. They wanted to spend more time with him, and even more so, to show up in front of him more often so that he would always remember them.

Sun Shan looked at them speechlessly, waved his hand and said, "Three of you, please be quiet, so as not to disturb Master Zhang."

The three wealthy businessmen turned to look at Master Zhang, and when they saw him calculating the scores with a frown on his face, they immediately stopped talking.

She had no choice but to flirt with Sun Shan frequently to show her presence.

County Magistrate Wang was also anxious about the interview results. In the previous interview, just like Master Xia, he gave his own "spy" to A, and the rest, haha, were all given to B, C, and D.

No matter how good or bad the answers of your family members are, you must get full marks.

The rest must be degraded so far that they cannot catch up even if they try their best.

County Magistrate Wang rolled his eyes, glancing briefly at the interviewers, wondering how they would rate him. Relying solely on one's own strength still couldn't guarantee victory.

Emma, ​​this Lord Sun is really smart. He specially found so many people to be interviewers, making the individual power very weak and unable to control the overall situation.

County Magistrate Wang and Boss Xia were still anxiously waiting for the result.

Sun Shan, Teacher Deng, and Chief Secretary Wu were much more relaxed. None of their candidates were among the applicants today, so the scoring was very fair.

Teacher Deng shook his head and said, "Master Sun, I see that the responses of the dozen or so people who have come for job interviews are all mediocre. How about we put out another notice and recruit more people?"

Teacher Deng looked at the whole audience and found that there was no talented person. Even if the tallest ones were picked from the short ones, they couldn't all be too short.

They were all so shabby that it was really hard to choose. It wasn't that Instructor Deng had high standards, but rather that the quality of these applicants was really low.

Wu Zhubo shook his head repeatedly and said, "Teacher, we issued the notice last year. Everyone knows that we are recruiting again. Alas, it's not that our notice was not wide enough, but that Yuanlu County has no talent. No matter how many notices we issue, it's futile."

Wu Zhubo wanted to say: Instead of posting a recruitment notice, it would be better to just find someone I know to do the job. He's just a workshop manager, there's no need to mobilize so many people.

And with them watching over the workshop, nothing will happen even if the manager is incompetent.

It is impossible to recruit again, Wu Zhubo is right.

Sun Shan smiled helplessly. "Since we've posted the recruitment notice for a manager and the people are here, let's choose one from these people. The workshop is gradually getting on track, and we can't delay any longer. If the manager doesn't know how to do it at first, we can slowly teach him. I believe he will be able to manage the workshop well in the future."

Sun Shan also felt that it was futile to recruit more people. The result was still the same. There were not many people who could read and write, and even fewer who could be managers.

We can only select from these applicants, and if they are really incompetent in the future, we will just fire them.

While the interviewers were discussing in low voices, Master Zhang had already calculated the results.

He handed it to Sun Shan and said, "Sir, the highest score belongs to Wang Ganhua, the first one to come in. Please take a look."