RE: dba interview questions

Bill

   So you are an HR person with a well-written job description in hand and a stack of resumes on the other (how may would you say a job posting would garner today -- 200?) It has been a long week of major and minor employee issues and the hiring manager has begun making ugly noises about "when am I going to see some candidates?". So you stuff the whole stack in your briefcase with the illusion of a nice quiet evening to get some solitude to really go through these resumes. But there are issues with your teenage daughter and your wife's reaction to these issues, and you glance at your watch, see it is 9 pm. and realize you meant to go through those resumes. So you sit down, read the job description once, looks like Greek, read it again, no better. Now you pick up the first resume and try to relate the words on the job description to the candidate's experience. You say to yourself, hmm . . this is going to be a long evening.

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> Pre-packaged questions are always a bad idea. When a company needs a
> DBA, it should know what do they need him for. Do they need them to

but that would provide that the company actually know how to define job duties and then convey them to HR who would then be able to screen applicants on actual experience and not just groups of letters.

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