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Re: interview questions for Network/Systems Admin types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erin Nettifee)
Wed Oct 19 22:45:04 2011
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I understand about wanting to leave it open, but the reason I'm inclined to keep the question more restrictive is to avoid having the candidate bring up things I don't want to talk about in an interview. I've had candidates with a question like that who have talked about religion ("I was such a screwup until I started going to Campus Crusade for Christ") - which is all fine and good, but I don't want to talk about your religious choices in a job interview. You end up having to shut the question down, and it becomes not useful. My 1.5 cents, of course :-)
Best,
Erin
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On Oct 19, 2011, at 8:24 PM, "Pete Hickey" <pete@shadows.uottawa.ca> wrote:
> I leave it open. As I said, it can tell a lot about the applicant.
>
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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 03:28:15PM -0500, Brock, Adam wrote:
>> You might want to restrict this one to mistakes made on the job. Otherwise you might put yourself in some awkward situations when you have an interview candidate telling a story about getting plastered and hooking up with a Taiwanese transvestite. #LFMF
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>> One question I like to ask.... for any kind of job.
>>
>> What was your biggest screwup/mistake you ever made, and how
>> did you rectify it?
>>
>> It tells a lot about a person at many levels.
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