Interviews can be quite tricky. I generally find that employers really don't know what questions to ask to find out if a candidate knows their stuff. Usually the questions are very open ended, such as what do you think of OOP or Frameworks, rather than give me an example of OOP using CFML or tell me what makes a framework. This often stems from the fact there there is no-one else within the company with the required skills to determine if the people they are interviewing have the required skills. Which makes the interviewee look bad because he isn't given the opportunity to show how good he is. Bit of a catch-22 that one.
One of the services I provide as a consultant, is that I will shortlist candidates and do the testing and interviewing for them. Generally I don't put too much stock in peoples CV's as lots of experience may not mean their good, and lack of experience may not mean their bad, and some people are just crap at writing CV's. Thus why I generally get everyone to take the online test to determine their CF/SQL/HTML/CSS skills. The interview is then to determine theie social skills, interaction, personality, how they deal with stress, problem solving etc. I will prepare an interview according to the role and job requirements, creating real scenarios and seeing how the candidate deals with them. I.E. provide them with a problem and ask them how they would deal with it. Provide them with a coding problem and ask them how they would approach it and solve it. -- Russ Michaels -----Original Message----- From: DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 December 2006 12:04 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Certification Russ, You want to share that test? We've had many times where we needed to hire a contractor and when they got here even though they interviewed well and had good cf resumes, the didn't know the even the simple things. It seems a lot of "temp agencies" (for lack of a better term) coach their contractors on how to bs their way in. Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264260 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
