Getting ready for a job interview? Be prepared!
I’m an old Boy Scout, an Eagle Scout, in fact, so I’m always thinking about “being prepared”, whether it’s a trip to the zoo for photography or a job interview. Scouts taught me, among other things, to think about situations long in advance of being in them, so I can prepare for what I might need and what I might need to do if things go wrong. There are thousands of ways this applies to being a professional geek, but, today, I’m going to focus on one way in particular: job interviews.
DICE ran an article back in November of last titled Interview Questions for Network Managers. It’s good. If you either are a Network Manager of some kind or plan to interview one, go read that article. Seriously. Of course, when I’ve been the interviewer in these situations, how the candidate got to the answer mattered to me as much as the answer itself. The point of questions like these, for interviewer and candidate, is to display how the potential network manager thinks. How we think about our networks and solve problems on them matter a whole lot. I remember working with one guy who, basically, tried things randomly over and over until something worked or he broke it completely. He never did understand the concept of changing one thing at a time to find out what was wrong so we could stop it from happening again.
In any case, I know a lot of my IT comrades are out of work out there and interviewing, so I thought I’d remind them of this resource to help prepare for future job interviews.
Good luck out there!
Advice from your Uncle Jim:
"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it."
--Monta Crane
