Re: Designing a DBA interview process to validly measure candidate abilities.

From: Andy Gmail <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:48:20 -0500
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Hobbies? Does the candidate build their own environment on vm's or personal hardware to work with maybe?

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On May 14, 2013, at 9:15 AM, fmh <fmhabash_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> It is rather easy to measure a candidate's technical knowledge. However,
> having interviewed many many DBA's, I'm finding it difficult and less
> reliable to measure these 2 traits ...
> 1) Being self-driven and initiative to learn on his/her own.
> 2) Owning work and progressing to completion to best of his/her ability.
>
> After being hired, inefficiencies on these 2 areas appear as the most
> common.
>
> How do you validate these 2 traits in the interview process?
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