Examples may include asking the applicant to give instructions to other employees or discuss the structural conformation of a cow. Interviews allow potential employers and employees to get to know each other. Interviews may take a serious, grilling, tone or be very laid-back and conversational. Practical tests require the applicant to perform one or more of the required skills through a mock situation. They may be asked to operate a piece of machinery, sort through a pen of steers, or load sacks of feed onto a trailer.
References require the applicant to provide the names and phone numbers of past employers.
Keep in mind, some employers may hesitate to provide negative information about a former employee out of fear over lawsuits. Other employers may give glowing recommendations to unsatisfactory employees they want to get rid of. After you have decided which hurdles you d like to use, take some time to develop each one. Prepare the job application. Formulate the questions for the written and oral tests.