My favorite question to hear the answer to, is what is one project that you have worked on in your spare time in the IT industry. It really shows those who are passionate about their jobs and not. <div><br></div><div>I've had some cool answers to that one. Including "setting up an MPLS-based network between (I think it was like 5 or 6) Cisco routers in the rack in my garage". First off, someone who can do that is pretty ace, but someone who attempts it in their spare time shows true dedication to their job. And this wasn't just a quick, get MPLS switching going. He had MPLS VPN's, P / PE / CPE routers and even was trying to get MPLS TE going.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Otherwise just the generic ones are usually pretty good. </div><div><br></div><div>What are the challenges / test questions people usually give above the normal "where did you work?" "what did you do there?". I mean questions like "Whats the netmask of a /28?" (To quote one already) or "Whats the smallest subnet you can have 64 hosts in?"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dan </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Cox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@accessplus.com.au">andrew@accessplus.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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These are basically some of my new recruit interview questions:<br>
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Have you ever built your own computer?<br>
What computer related hobbies are you involved in outside of work/study?<br>
What sort of internet connection do you have? (most nerds with a crap
connection will want to explain the reason why :-D)<br>
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If you answered with <generic nerdy stuff> you get an extra 100
points.<br>
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The ones who are interested in all facets of IT seem to end up the ones
who'll (occasionally) come in late, but always stay later.<br>
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- Andrew<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 19/05/2010 11:25 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
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<div>On 19/05/2010, at 11:19 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:</div>
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I’m reading resumes and interviewing there are a lot of ‘tells’ on how
clueful someone is, how passionate they are about what they want to be
doing. And if I get one bit on Gen Y attitude (what is in it for me),
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The passion for the technology and the genuine curiosity is, I think,
the key.
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<div>"What was your favourite shop to visit as a kid?"</div>
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<div>If they answer something like Jaycar, local computer shop etc.</div>
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<div>"Did you take things apart as a kid?"</div>
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<div>"When did you first start to program?"</div>
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<div>"When did your family first start asking you for tech advice?"</div>
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<div>These are the key questions. If someone doesn't remember how
to change duplex then that's just a fact they can learn, but the
passion to learn and the interest and continual curiosity is what I
look for.</div>
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<div>MMC</div>
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