Re: a question regarding resumes

["Jack Stewart" <jack@macsch.com>]

On Jul 24,  4:50pm, Todd Williams wrote:
>
> 	"It is the 15th century.  How would you convince the pope that the
> 	Earth is round?"
>

Damm!  The cat's out of the bag on that one.  Some of my other favorite (and
less relevant) non-technical questions are:

	"I give you an african grey elephant.  How would you hide it?"

	"What's your favorite swear word?  Why?"

You can troll for questions like on shows like "Inside the Actor's Studio"
and on the internet.  Another real useful style of questioning is to ask
technical questions for which there is no correct answer.  For example:

	"Is DHCP routable?"

	"What's the different between a bridge, a router, and a gateway?"

I believe that Evi is the source of the last one (LISA, about three years
ago).

The other thing to pay attention to is the questions that the person you are
interviewing asks you.  Michelle Crabb made some really good points about
phone interviews at SANS two years ago (i.e. use them! write out your
questions!, etc.)  I would encourage people to use phone screening techniques
as it can save a lot of time.

---Jack





-- 
Jack Stewart				#include <std.disclaimer>
Network Supervisor			  email: jack.stewart@macsch.com
MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation		    fax: 213-259-3838