I am always the one giving interviews. Currently having 5 years of experience. I imagine what it would feel like to interview someone. I wish my manager invites me one day to interview a new team member.
I love conducting interviews. I have little experience in IT, (almost 2 years) but in my previous field I gave interviews a lot. It’s made me change my focus toward IT Operations/ Management.
I've always enjoyed interviewing but sometimes it also really sucks. I HATE it when there are 2+ candidates that would be a likely excellent hire but for different reasons. We had that happen recently where we needed an additional sys admin role filled. It came down to 3 possibilities. 1 with tons of experience, no relevant certs, 1 with minimal experience and just got his ccna and 1 middle of the road option. He didn't have any certs but had a different form of experience that heavily capitalized on being an independent initiator requiring minimal oversight and a good track record of executing on projects. All 3 knew their stuff, interviewed well and seemed to be a good team fit. We ended up picking the "middle of the road" candidate. When we called the CCNA person back, he'd stated he'd even come on for lower pay, he just really wanted to get his foot in the door. Unfortunately, that's not really the best thing to say because it planted the seed of "he's likely a short term hire" in our minds. We wanted someone who was likely to stick around at least a few years.
Interesting. that’s one thing I also noticed during my interview. Outside of his knowledge it seemed the candidate was very interested in cross training with other teams and what my team needs right now is consistency.
Awesome content! I sat in on an interview for our network automation engineer and experienced the “talk” you mentioned. Like you said, it was a good opportunity to brush up on what I knew as well. Looking forward to hearing about your CCIE journey if you choose to go that route. I got my DEVASC at Cisco live 2022 and my VCP-DCV in November 2022. About to start on the Encor now. Keep pushing man!
I am always the one giving interviews.
Currently having 5 years of experience.
I imagine what it would feel like to interview someone. I wish my manager invites me one day to interview a new team member.
I love conducting interviews. I have little experience in IT, (almost 2 years) but in my previous field I gave interviews a lot. It’s made me change my focus toward IT Operations/ Management.
I’m 41 btw and switched to IT 2 years ago. Previously was an Electronics tech dealing with RF for about 15 years.
I've always enjoyed interviewing but sometimes it also really sucks. I HATE it when there are 2+ candidates that would be a likely excellent hire but for different reasons. We had that happen recently where we needed an additional sys admin role filled. It came down to 3 possibilities. 1 with tons of experience, no relevant certs, 1 with minimal experience and just got his ccna and 1 middle of the road option. He didn't have any certs but had a different form of experience that heavily capitalized on being an independent initiator requiring minimal oversight and a good track record of executing on projects. All 3 knew their stuff, interviewed well and seemed to be a good team fit. We ended up picking the "middle of the road" candidate. When we called the CCNA person back, he'd stated he'd even come on for lower pay, he just really wanted to get his foot in the door. Unfortunately, that's not really the best thing to say because it planted the seed of "he's likely a short term hire" in our minds. We wanted someone who was likely to stick around at least a few years.
Interesting. that’s one thing I also noticed during my interview. Outside of his knowledge it seemed the candidate was very interested in cross training with other teams and what my team needs right now is consistency.
GOT A BETTER JOB LETS GO!!!
First to comment here, Great content Buffnerd. You'll continue to be an inspiration to many like me. Thanx for the video.
Awesome content! I sat in on an interview for our network automation engineer and experienced the “talk” you mentioned. Like you said, it was a good opportunity to brush up on what I knew as well.
Looking forward to hearing about your CCIE journey if you choose to go that route. I got my DEVASC at Cisco live 2022 and my VCP-DCV in November 2022. About to start on the Encor now. Keep pushing man!
Happy new year y’all 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Hey man!
I was wondering did you have time to talk via email or linkedin? In regards to job hunting.
Sure shoot me a message on linkedin.