I take a different tact when interviewing. We have developed a test consists of just two questions - neither of which are taxing from a CF point of view. The point of the tests are that you need to have a basic grasp of CF, but more importantly need to thinking in the right way. Any monkey can learn CF, but only some monkeys can think the way a good developer needs to (and that's a lot harder to teach).
Neil On 12/17/06, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interviews can be quite tricky. I generally find that employers really > don't know what questions to ask to find out if a candidate knows their > stuff. > Usually the questions are very open ended, such as what do you think of > OOP > or Frameworks, rather than give me an example of OOP using CFML or tell me > what makes a framework. > This often stems from the fact there there is no-one else within the > company > with the required skills to determine if the people they are interviewing > have the required skills. > Which makes the interviewee look bad because he isn't given the > opportunity > to show how good he is. > Bit of a catch-22 that one. > > One of the services I provide as a consultant, is that I will shortlist > candidates and do the testing and interviewing for them. > Generally I don't put too much stock in peoples CV's as lots of experience > may not mean their good, and lack of experience may not mean their bad, > and > some people are just crap at writing CV's. Thus why I generally get > everyone > to take the online test to determine their CF/SQL/HTML/CSS skills. The > interview is then to determine theie social skills, interaction, > personality, how they deal with stress, problem solving etc. > > I will prepare an interview according to the role and job requirements, > creating real scenarios and seeing how the candidate deals with them. I.E. > provide them with a problem and ask them how they would deal with it. > Provide them with a coding problem and ask them how they would approach > it > and solve it. > > -- > Russ Michaels > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: DURETTE, STEVEN J (ASI-AIT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 December 2006 12:04 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Certification > > Russ, > > You want to share that test? We've had many times where we needed to hire > a > contractor and when they got here even though they interviewed well and > had > good cf resumes, the didn't know the even the simple things. > > It seems a lot of "temp agencies" (for lack of a better term) coach their > contractors on how to bs their way in. > > Steve > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:264261 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
