Stopping and handing over: how an unfinished exercise is recorded
In a Calavion exercise, an applicant can hand over work that is still open. In the cancellation case that means leaving a follow-up reminder for whoever picks the work up, and then finishing. The employer’s Replay then lists what was not completed, and which records were never checked. It is recorded as finishing with work left open. That is different from a person at the employer recording that an applicant left.
This page is about what the exercise lets an applicant do and what gets recorded. For how an employer might read an unfinished ending, see when is unfinished work the responsible outcome?.
The problem with “finish everything”
Real work is rarely finished cleanly. Someone starts a shift, picks up a situation already in motion, and hands part of it on. A test that rewards only the finished state cannot tell a careful handover from a dropped task. An exercise that never lets work stay open cannot see the difference either.
What an applicant can do
In the cancellation case, an applicant who cannot finish everything can leave a follow-up reminder, which the system calls an obligation, and then finish. That is a recorded choice. Handover options depend on the case, so this applies in cases that define them.
What Replay shows
When the employer opens Replay, the final state lists what was not completed, for example “Not completed: …”, and which records were never checked. The employer sees both what was done and what was left open.
How endings are classed
In the cancellation case the case itself defines different endings for a shipment that left with a reminder set and one that left with no one owning it. Where a company has approved criteria for an exercise, it can class those endings as it chooses, and a person reads the record. Calavion does not give applicants an overall score, generate an ordered shortlist, or recommend whom to hire. The employer orders its shortlist; the software checks that order against approved criteria and asks for a reason where it conflicts.
The time limit
A session ends automatically at its time limit. The limit depends on the case. We are not describing what the applicant sees when it ends here.
What is never counted as the applicant’s failure
A technical interruption is never counted as the applicant’s failure. Only a person at the employer can record that an applicant left.
What we do not know
- What an applicant’s screen says when the time limit ends. We have not verified it, so we do not describe it.
- Whether this design changes who does well. We make no claim about outcomes or fairness.
- Which cases offer handover. It depends on the case, and not every prepared case will.
Related
- Employer-side reading:
/resources/unfinished-work-responsible-outcome/ - What a Replay shows:
/replay/ - What we tell applicants:
/resources/what-we-tell-applicants-before-they-start/