I hope so, I'd hate to think there was more than one!
________________________________ From: Lowell Porter <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: GIS and SI "...turned out to be the jerk who never actually did any work and when he did, messed it up so badly it took three people to figure out how to undo it. " Wow, I think I've worked with that person. I'm surprised they're still in a technical field. Lowell Porter EDI Analyst From: Leah Halpin <[email protected]> To: Samantha Scott <[email protected]> Cc: tbergmann1 <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: 08/23/2012 03:15 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: GIS and SI Sent by: [email protected] I wish I could offer no fail advice on that one, but my lifetime average is 50/50. Now what I've learned from that is to ask someone what they like about the work they do and also to ask more open ended questions, like asking them to describe a problem they came up against and how it was solved. I never ask the "what don't you like" because that only gets dumb answers and also "tell me your weaknesses". LOL, like the whole world hasn't figured that one out. I did hear an interview question that intrigued me, although I don't really know what to do with the answers and that was "off the top of your head, what are five words that describe you?". What I need is a BS meter, my worst mistake was hiring a very personable and well spoken person with a stellar resume who turned out to be the jerk who never actually did any work and when he did, messed it up so badly it took three people to figure out how to undo it. Leah ________________________________ From: Samantha Scott <[email protected]> To: Leah Halpin <[email protected]> Cc: tbergmann1 <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" < [email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: GIS and SI Amen I would be interested in any nuggets of wisdom you have to share on interviewing candidates and figuring out whether they have those important traits. I've been contemplating test for critical thinking skills and wondering if there is any test out there for common sense! Seems crazy I know but I'd take one good person with common sense and good basic code housekeeping skills who loves a challenge over four with perfect resumes lacking those skills. On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Leah Halpin wrote: >Allow me to suggest that finding someone who knows your exact system/toolkit is not necessarily going to mean a small learning curve. I have worked with people who "knew" the tool being used from previous positions and had worked with it for many years. However, they couldn't adapt to a new business process nor to a different industry. > >Also, I've known people who supposedly knew the tool and the industry, but just didn't bother to do any work, although they sold themselves well in the interview. Others who knew the tool, but had no idea how to gather requirements or even interpret guidelines, they had to be told EXACTLY what to do, that made more work for the rest of us, not less. > >Bottom line, I now look for people whose resumes show flexibility, variety and evidence of learning ability. I learned this the hard way, maybe you can avoid that mistake. > >Second piece of advice, ask the question you really want answered instead of posing a hypothetical, you'll get better answers. > >Good Luck, >Leah > >________________________________ >From: tbergmann1 <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 2:09 PM >Subject: [EDI-L] Re: GIS and SI > > > >I apologize for the tardiness, but thank you all for your comments. I am essentially trying to figure out if I hire someone who has GIS experience, the shift to SI will be minimal. Unfortunately we can't afford a big learning curve so I have to minimize my vulnerability. But it does sound like it won't be too bad. > >--- In [email protected], Samantha Scott <mossmuncher@...> wrote: >> >> When we went from GIS to SI I hardly noticed the difference, operationally. All my old stuff worked. Adapters get improved and deprecated as one would expect. Its always good to know which ones you are using and read the update notes carefully. I have been updating all the xpath to the more specific reference as preferred by SI: string(/ProcessData/ParticularNode) rather than //ParticularNode/text() but the old way continues to work in the meantime. >> >> My biggest piece of advice is never upgrade...always do a fresh install on a new server instance, migrate all your prod to it (test extensively) and then make it prod when you take down the old instance and copy prod for your new test environment. With the latest versions of SI as administered by IBM that is your only option now anyway. Good choice...upgrades were twice the work and 3 times the hassle going forward. >> >> On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:29 PM, tbergmann1 wrote: >> >> > Hello folks. I would like to pick your brains regarding Sterling's GIS and Sterling Integrator. Essentially what I would like to know is if someone is very knowledgeable about GIS but has never used SI, how big of a learning curve would you think there would be? Based on what I know about both (which, admittedly is little), I would suspect it's not too big a learning curve, but I'd rather hear from someone who has used both. >> > >> > Thanks for all your help and happy Friday! >> > >> > >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------- This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. 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