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Interviewing Experienced IT People?
11/20/2008

Thricenightly writes "After more than 20 years in IT I've learned that the most of great price




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document.w people in a team are customarily the old timers. Young pups plain out of college might (think they) know all the latest buzzwords and techniques, but in the real world, where getting working products delivered on time and on budget is of headmost importance, people who have been doing the job for a decade or two tend to be the people I'd rather be working alongside. I've just now been elevated to a surroundings where I get to cattle call* and choose those who get hired in my department. despite I'm very much focused on choice the right person for the role coarse of age, empirical or whatever, it's plausibly fair to say the more mature applicants will get a more sympathetic hearing from me than they might from most other interviewers for IT roles. The inquire is, what do I ask older applicants to get them to demonstrate the value of their experience? My current gambit is thing like 'IT is seen as a young man's game. My next inquirer after you is 23 years old. What do you know that he doesn't?' This gets responses ranging from the vague to the truly enlightened. All next week I'm interviewing for a number of senior windows fabricator and pioneer roles. What should I be asking of the more versed applicants, and what responses should I be looking out for?"

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