On 10/15/13 12:38 PM, Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski wrote:
Hi
As part of WA State's center for excellence in information
technology, they are creating a profile of the "ideal" system admin
graduate from a 2 or 4 year program. The goal is to get an outline of
skills and knowledge needed. So what do you consider the skills and
knowledge needed by a new system admin graduate?
The biggest thing I'd want to see in a new graduate is that they
understand how to figure out what they don't know and also how to teach
such to themselves. Any particular skillset is going to become
deprecated pretty quickly (any VMS admins reading this?), and nobody can
know everything ahead of time. I'd want to be confident that a new
sysadmin would be able to:
1. Identify when a problem exceeds their current skillset
2. Figure out what they'd need to know to solve that problem
3. Figure out how to learn those things
4. Actually follow through with doing so
I see lots of young interviewees who miss one or more of these steps,
and need a lot of hand-holding to get to the other end of a problem.
Those who have a good grasp of the whole path, on the other hand, can
generally figure out the answers to completely unfamiliar problems with
a minimum of prodding.
Bonus skill: new graduates should understand that they can modify their
tools to better suit them; I find it's always a good sign when an
interviewee has a .emacs or .vimrc file. :-)
- Adam
Cheers,
Ski
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