If LJ will allow me... My wife used to work in HR circles for hiring of technical personnel. She tells me the following concerning employment law here in the United States: - it is actually not illegal to ask questions about age, race, gender, marital status, etc; - but it IS ILLEGAL TO ACTUALL USE SUCH INFORMATION during the hiring decision (unless hiring authority can prove such answers are related to the job!).
Trouble is: once a person has obtained ANY information, how do you prove that information was NOT used? Therefore, most HR departments enforce a policy: DO NOT ASK!!! And, such a 'know/did-not-know' criteria can be applied to technology questions as well, making a really meaningful (and fully legal!) screening of an employee for a technology post quite challenging, especially here in the US. Don W. McClure, P.E. CITC Call Tracking Administration University of North Texas dwmac @ unt . edu -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:50 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help Speaking of which....agreed, in the US it's illegal to ask questions such as marital status, gender, race, age, etc....I have been looking at a fair amount of Indian resumes recently and was VERY surprised to practically find a family history included....age, birth date including year, spouse name, fathers name, etc....surprised the heck out of me. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:16 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help True - but I believe it is illegal to ask if somebody is married. Some questions are dual purpose ;) -John On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:55 PM, LJ LongWing wrote: Jon....any husband automatically does the first one... -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Interview Questions - Please help You forgot: How do you apologize for something you did not do? How do you fix something that is not broke - and please estimate time it should take within 15 minutes accuracy. Do you get along with others? Do you show up on time? If you work on a problem for 12 hours - and it should have been 1 hour -- how much time do you bill? etc... Not all questions should be technical in nature. And the above are probably harder than the below. -John On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:29 AM, Ram Rudra wrote: Hi All, In an interview point of view, I have gathered the below questions and looking for answers. Please help. 1) What is the difference between and Active Link and a Filter? 2) What is a .def file used for? 3) What is a .arx file? 4) Who is Doug Mueller? 5) What is a use for an Active Link Guide? 6) What type of field is the "Worklog" field? 7) Name two DBMSs in which Remedy ARS can run on top of? 8) What does ARS stand for? 9) What are the core fields? 10) What does $MENU$ do? 11) What is the function of DDE-Poke? 12) What are ar.ini and ar.conf files used for? 13) Describe the features that are available by comparing ARS Ver. 6.3, 7.1 and 7.5 majorly? 14) Why ardiff utility is used for? 15) How do you deploy your application on web? 16) When and in what situation you use workflow log, arerror.log, arfilter.log, aresc.log? 17) Explain the actions available in active link which are not in Filters. Explain why it is not. 18) Why ardiff utility is used for? 19) What is the primary table in the AR System data dictionary? 20) How does the AR System manage the data you see in Remedy Forms? 21) Without using DSO or EIE, what are your thoughts for providing a 'STANDARDIZED' methodology for interfacing/integrating with Remedy applications. This customer was actually looking to use C.I.M. or some other open standard solution to interface with Remedy.... what you say? 22) How do you troubleshoot AR System server outages to restore access to the system? 23) How does mid-tier work and where does it fit in the client server architecture? 24) Describe how filters work? They were actually looking how filters work in different phases... which led to the next question. 25) Can you force a filter to fire all actions in the first phase? 26) List all of the possible uses for guides. They were looking for walking tables? 27) What is walking tables? 28) when you use CMDBDriver.exe command line utility? 29) When you use arreload.exe command line utility? 30) how you reset the application administrator / demo password if you forget it? 31) When you use arsignal command line utility? 32) When you use runmacro command line utility? 33) When you use archgid command line utility? 34) How many table types are available in ARSystem Database and explain them? Thanks & Regards, Ram Rudra ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" -- John Sundberg Kinetic Data, Inc. "Building a Better Service Experience" Recipient of the WWRUG09 Innovator of the Year Award john.sundb...@kineticdata.com 651.556.0930 I www.kineticdata.com ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" -- John Sundberg Kinetic Data, Inc. 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