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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]thanks for the replies, everyone. i am, of course, giving her feedback. i've returned most of her assignments with comments and revised, re-submit deadlines. one of things that has me worried in particular is that not one assignment, and i've purposefully given her a wide variety, has come in at the level i was hoping for (and at the level that others in her position seem to have no trouble with). or i guess a better way of putting it, at a level that i can work with. this is a resource poor environment and i just don't have the time to both walk her through every little thing AND have to do her work myself because she is so slow at getting her assignments completed.

as a concrete example, but without going into specific detail about our work, we need folks in this role to have facility with the entire Microsoft suite of software at the intermediate level. in my experience, you can get someone from intermediate to advanced over time and without too much trouble. this person did not know how to insert a page number or center a title in Word. we do a fair bit of work in Excel, though nothing too too complex. still, she turned in a spreadsheet for a basic assignment (think three columns, where two must add to the third) where the calculations were done BY HAND outside of Excel with a calculator because she either doesn't know or doesn't realize how to use formulas.

this is the kind of thing that i just [u]don't have time [/u]to work with. but she comes with a master's from a top tier school and a few years work experience.[/quote]

HR bitch here: if you can, I'd meet with her tomorrow, give her the deadline of two Mondays from tomorrow or end of July, and as I said before specific goals she must meet to retain her position. One of which would be getting to an intermmediate/advanced level in all MS programs. It's on HER to figure out what that is specifically and to get there on her own non-work time. It just goes to show that brand name schools don't mean everything, you know? [/quote]

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