We're a growing technology consulting business. Recently, we won a huge contract requiring us to hire a significant number of technical staff in a short period of time. The award generated a lot of good press for us and we received several inquiries from people interested in joining our company. As the Human Resources (HR) Manager, I had seen many times where rapid hiring led to candidates who looked great on paper but fell short of the mark in skills. I had also seen highly qualified candidates overlooked because they were intimidated by the traditional job interview. So, I suggested we host an online "hackathon" event to assess technical skills in near real-time and identify quality candidates. We have many virtual teams collaborating on projects while spread across the country. So I decided the hackathon would require candidates to work together in teams to solve a business problem. With this, we could assess their technical and teamwork skills. From the hackathon, we were looking to hire project managers, business analysts, network architects and information security analysts