RE: /400 skills test

["Donna Bryant" <peeksoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe you can and should test or conduct technical interviews.  In a
previous life, I was the managing consultant for the AS400 group of a large
consulting firm in Denver, and we conducted as series of 3 interviews:  the
first was a personnel department screening, the second a technical
interview, and the third a "management" interview.  In the technical
interview, I didn't ask questions like "Can you do subfiles?"  Instead I
might ask "How is the SFLNXTCHG" keyword used?" or "What is the consequence
of SFLPAG = SFLSIZ?"
As a consultant myself, I have had to interview for a great number of
positions and most people will only ask some variation of "Did you do
subfiles in your last job?"    I used a list of questions that I developed,
many of which were from the tests that I gave to my students at Front Range
Community College in the AS400 certificate program.  I may have a list of
those questions somewhere, if someone wants to followup on this.

Donna Bryant, CCP
Peek Software Services, Inc
(912) 598-9245
donnabryant@peeksoft.com
www.peeksoft.com


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