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terrylw
Good suggestion, Earl.
AJM, Guess me asking you for a job is out of the question, now (rofl)
AJM, Guess me asking you for a job is out of the question, now (rofl)
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Cor Ligthert
AJM,
You wrote your own answers, don't ask the guy for his bla bla skills, what
are often jargon words as Polymorphism, especially when used with non
experts. Than it tells something from the guy/girl. Ask if he/she tells
something you don't know, how he/she uses it. (If you are a CIO than you
know on his/her face if he/she talks the truth)
Ask him/her how he would make from a problem a solution using VBNet.
Ask how many time he would need for the sample problem you give him/her, and
check if he/she asks questions to solve it. (When he asks nothing, you are
ready).
You have in my opinion enough background to check his/her answers. On jargon
answers you have in my opinion nothing.
Most people in this newsgroup are doing different kind of things, some are
doing chat programs, some are doing large business applications, some are
doing webdevelopment, some are doing for simple use windowform development,
some for PDA etc. etc.
All have their special things that they find important and therefore getting
a good measuring tool from this newsgroup will be in my opinion (very)
difficult. You can of course check of the guy/girl knows that he/she can do
all those things with VBNet. When he/she does not, you are already ready.
The last question is of course, what is the benefit from Net. When he/she
starts telling that it is not much and that it is even better to use older
methods, than you know as well that you have to wrong guy/girl. You can of
course help him/her to give this answer
I agree with both you and terrylw about knowledge. Although it is in my
opinion not very good as terrylw suggested, as you know more than all the
folks under you.
You have to be in my opinion at least forever the guy that can understand
them or have a guy/girl which can be the human interface between that.
I understand from you that is what you try to do with this message.
I hope therefore this gives some idea's.
Cor
You wrote your own answers, don't ask the guy for his bla bla skills, what
are often jargon words as Polymorphism, especially when used with non
experts. Than it tells something from the guy/girl. Ask if he/she tells
something you don't know, how he/she uses it. (If you are a CIO than you
know on his/her face if he/she talks the truth)
Ask him/her how he would make from a problem a solution using VBNet.
Ask how many time he would need for the sample problem you give him/her, and
check if he/she asks questions to solve it. (When he asks nothing, you are
ready).
You have in my opinion enough background to check his/her answers. On jargon
answers you have in my opinion nothing.
Most people in this newsgroup are doing different kind of things, some are
doing chat programs, some are doing large business applications, some are
doing webdevelopment, some are doing for simple use windowform development,
some for PDA etc. etc.
All have their special things that they find important and therefore getting
a good measuring tool from this newsgroup will be in my opinion (very)
difficult. You can of course check of the guy/girl knows that he/she can do
all those things with VBNet. When he/she does not, you are already ready.
The last question is of course, what is the benefit from Net. When he/she
starts telling that it is not much and that it is even better to use older
methods, than you know as well that you have to wrong guy/girl. You can of
course help him/her to give this answer
I agree with both you and terrylw about knowledge. Although it is in my
opinion not very good as terrylw suggested, as you know more than all the
folks under you.
You have to be in my opinion at least forever the guy that can understand
them or have a guy/girl which can be the human interface between that.
I understand from you that is what you try to do with this message.
I hope therefore this gives some idea's.
Cor
R
Robin Tucker
imho, as I said previously, it is more important that he can demonstrate
ability to learn stuff, unless you are offerring a contract position and
this guy needs to hit the ground running. You have the probationary period
to fall back on at least. Alternatively, shell out a few £k for a technical
recruitment agency to do all the knowledge filtering for you.
For my current position, I was first interviewed and given some noddy
questions to answer from a Software Manager (ex programmer) - questions like
"what is reference counting" (heh). My second interview was with a hardware
project manager (not a software guy) and my last interview was with the
managing director (ugh, "we have the same birthday! welcome aboard!!!").
ability to learn stuff, unless you are offerring a contract position and
this guy needs to hit the ground running. You have the probationary period
to fall back on at least. Alternatively, shell out a few £k for a technical
recruitment agency to do all the knowledge filtering for you.
For my current position, I was first interviewed and given some noddy
questions to answer from a Software Manager (ex programmer) - questions like
"what is reference counting" (heh). My second interview was with a hardware
project manager (not a software guy) and my last interview was with the
managing director (ugh, "we have the same birthday! welcome aboard!!!").
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terrylw
AJM,
You've have several good suggestions from different perspectives.
You will never find someone that knows absolutely everything about a
given area. But for a management position, they need to have a
broader range of skills.
For me, I can program in Visual Basic.Net.... I'm not the best, I've
built reporting systems, that exported data from a progress database on
a Aix system to MS Sql 2000 server, then utilizing asp.net,
activereports and infragistics controls, built a web-based inteface for
retrieving reports.
But on the other hand, I can design, implement and maintain Windows
2003 networks, domain controllers, email server and all. Repair
problems with an orphaned DC. Configure Cisco firewalls and routers,
setup dynamic vpns - Site to site and client to site.
You've have several good suggestions from different perspectives.
You will never find someone that knows absolutely everything about a
given area. But for a management position, they need to have a
broader range of skills.
For me, I can program in Visual Basic.Net.... I'm not the best, I've
built reporting systems, that exported data from a progress database on
a Aix system to MS Sql 2000 server, then utilizing asp.net,
activereports and infragistics controls, built a web-based inteface for
retrieving reports.
But on the other hand, I can design, implement and maintain Windows
2003 networks, domain controllers, email server and all. Repair
problems with an orphaned DC. Configure Cisco firewalls and routers,
setup dynamic vpns - Site to site and client to site.
T
terrylw
AJM,
You've have several good suggestions from different perspectives.
You will never find someone that knows absolutely everything about a
given area. But for a management position, they need to have a
broader range of skills.
For me, I can program in Visual Basic.Net.... I'm not the best, I've
built reporting systems, that exported data from a progress database on
a Aix system to MS Sql 2000 server, then utilizing asp.net,
activereports and infragistics controls, built a web-based inteface for
retrieving reports.
But on the other hand, I can design, implement and maintain Windows
2003 networks, domain controllers, email server and all. Repair
problems with an orphaned DC. Configure Cisco firewalls and routers,
setup dynamic vpns - Site to site and client to site.
You've have several good suggestions from different perspectives.
You will never find someone that knows absolutely everything about a
given area. But for a management position, they need to have a
broader range of skills.
For me, I can program in Visual Basic.Net.... I'm not the best, I've
built reporting systems, that exported data from a progress database on
a Aix system to MS Sql 2000 server, then utilizing asp.net,
activereports and infragistics controls, built a web-based inteface for
retrieving reports.
But on the other hand, I can design, implement and maintain Windows
2003 networks, domain controllers, email server and all. Repair
problems with an orphaned DC. Configure Cisco firewalls and routers,
setup dynamic vpns - Site to site and client to site.
T
terrylw
AJM,
You've have several good suggestions from different perspectives.
You will never find someone that knows absolutely everything about a
given area. But for a management position, they need to have a
broader range of skills.
For me, I can program in Visual Basic.Net.... I'm not the best, I've
built reporting systems, that exported data from a progress database on
a Aix system to MS Sql 2000 server, then utilizing asp.net,
activereports and infragistics controls, built a web-based inteface for
retrieving reports.
But on the other hand, I can design, implement and maintain Windows
2003 networks, domain controllers, email server and all. Repair
problems with an orphaned DC. Configure Cisco firewalls and routers,
setup dynamic vpns - Site to site and client to site.
You've have several good suggestions from different perspectives.
You will never find someone that knows absolutely everything about a
given area. But for a management position, they need to have a
broader range of skills.
For me, I can program in Visual Basic.Net.... I'm not the best, I've
built reporting systems, that exported data from a progress database on
a Aix system to MS Sql 2000 server, then utilizing asp.net,
activereports and infragistics controls, built a web-based inteface for
retrieving reports.
But on the other hand, I can design, implement and maintain Windows
2003 networks, domain controllers, email server and all. Repair
problems with an orphaned DC. Configure Cisco firewalls and routers,
setup dynamic vpns - Site to site and client to site.