{"id":5098,"date":"2020-04-20T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/paul\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:25:41","slug":"try-one-of-our-new-candidate-screening-tests-at-kandio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/try-one-of-our-new-candidate-screening-tests-at-kandio\/","title":{"rendered":"Try one of our new candidate screening tests at Kandio!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2020\/\\L04\/\\LFacebook-Story-1080x1920-SQLskills.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5099 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\L2020\/\\L04\/\\LFacebook-Story-1080x1920-SQLskills-169x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that we have a new partnership!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We&#8217;ve been involved in a lot of recruiting processes for our clients and realized we could save everyone time and money by pre-screening candidates. To that end, we&#8217;ve teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/kand.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kandio<\/a> to publish exclusive candidate and skill assessments for SQL Server and other database products.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We encourage you to try out our first two screening assessments for SQL Server for free &#8211; test your own SQL skills &#8211; and you&#8217;ll get the results by email in 24 hours to see if you&#8217;d make it to the job interview! :-)<\/p>\n<p>Edit: 4\/30\/2020 The trial period for these tests is over now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MS SQL Server Database Administrator Assessment<\/strong> (description <a href=\"https:\/\/kand.io\/tests\/details\/ms-sql-server-database-administrator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edit: 4\/30\/2020 link and password removed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MS SQL Server Database Developer Assessment<\/strong> (description <a href=\"https:\/\/kand.io\/tests\/details\/ms-sql-server-database-developer\/\">here<\/a>)<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edit: 4\/30\/2020 link and password removed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Enjoy!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that we have a new partnership! 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