Take-home assignment

How it is used

Clarify the expected effort, deadline and permitted assistance before starting.

Example sentences

1. The take-home assignment asked for a short analysis of anonymized survey results.

   The candidate prepares a deliverable outside a live interview.

2. I asked whether external research was allowed in the take-home assignment.

   The conditions of independent work should be understood before submission.

Common collocations

• submit a take-home assignment
• take-home assignment deadline

Related terms

• applicationA formal request for a job, or the set of documents and forms you send to an employer when you make that request.
• job interviewA formal meeting in which an employer asks a candidate questions to decide whether they are right for a job.

More terms: The Interview

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• phone screen
• video interview
• panel interview
• first impression
• body language
• case interview
• technical interview
• coding interview
• group interview
• assessment centre
• in-tray exercise