RE: /400 skills test

How about these questions:

"Tell me about the coolest application you've ever written."

"Tell me about an application that you've written that is still in use
today."

"What kind of music do you like?"

"Name a few movers and shakers in the computer programming field."

"An accountant needs some inventory numbers in a spreadsheet. What do you
do?"

-- Don


P.S. Go ahead someone ... answer the above questions. I'll grade you. Are
you good enough for Schenck Technical Consulting??? <grin>



-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Bryant [mailto:peeksoft@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: May 18, 2000 8:59 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: /400 skills test


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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