ISO standards

[j4]

If you were trying to recruit an Information Systems Officer, as per  this job spec, what questions would you want to ask them in a technical interview?

Just, you know, wondering, out of curiosity, like.

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[nja.livejournal.com]

browsing the web for items of interest for linkage

It may look like I'm downloading porn, but I'm just browsing the web for items of interest for linkage! Look, it's in the job spec!

It looks to me as if the job spec is actually:

1. Maintain our web site.
2. Do it properly (i.e. don't stick the old website into Word, do "save as HTML", wrap the resulting gunk in a PHP wrapper and then hand it back to someone else to update in the future because you're leaving¹).
3. Produce some documentation (i.e. don't do a half-arsed job, then skedaddle leaving someone else to work out what you've done, how you've done it, and in the name of Beelzebub why did you do it that way?²).
4. Do some other stuff which frankly you'd have to be a complete muppet not to be able to manage.

¹ Bitter? Moi?
² Bitter? Moi?

Given that your application (sorry, a hypothetical application) will go through all the selection criteria in detail, I suspect a technical interview will basically be to see if the applicant has lied through their teeth (I interviewed applicants for a part-time CO post a while ago, there was one applicant who most of the panel thought was incredibly impressive and should be offered the job - the chap from the computer centre and I pointed out that everything he had said was plausible if you knew nothing about computers, but utter bullshit nonetheless).

I have to say that if I were you, I'd apply for it because I think you've got what they are looking for.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I have to say that if I were you, I'd apply for it because I think you've got what they are looking for.

Ta. :-) I've got an interview on Thursday, hence the question about what they might be likely to ask...

What you're saying about what they're expecting sounds plausible -- and fortunately I didn't lie on my application, so hopefully I should be okay! (Touch wood)

[nja.livejournal.com]

Not lying is a really good idea, and you'd be amazed how many people applying for computer jobs forget that. They think they'll be able to dazzle with buzzwords to cover their ignorance. "I'm willing and able to learn stuff I don't know" is more impressive than "when I said I could program in Perl, I meant I installed it on my PC yesterday".

Good luck. I always feel ambiguous about saying that because it's not down to luck, is it? If there's any justice you ought to get the job. That's better.

[j4.livejournal.com]

it's not down to luck

Nah, it's largely down to luck, because I have no idea what the other candidates are like. There are gazillions of people who could do the job better than me; 'luck' is whether or not they're applying for it. 8-)