Re: a question regarding resumes

[Bryan Andregg <bandregg@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:03:42 -0700, John Sechrest wrote: 

>	I am finding this interview questions discussion very
>	interesting. 
>	
>	This term (summer), I am teaching a Unix System 
>	Administration Class at Oregon State University.
>	
>	So I see the questions from the other side. If 
>	I succeed in teaching my class right, then
>	my class should be able to fly thru the interview with
>	a good understanding of the basics.
>	
>	What things would you be looking for from a 
>	student who had gone thru a unix system admin
>	class?

Learn what tools are already available on most platforms and how to use them. I
once worked with colleague who insisted on writing his own perl scripts for
everything. This is a great skill however I once watched him write an entire
script to find all of our users mail-spool files above a given size. While his
program was running I quickly ran 'find ./ -size +10000 -print' to show him that
the script he had written was natively there and ran faster.

The addition here is to learn how to ask if certain programs are available or if
there is a program already in place to serve a function. My friend was quite
upset that I was trying to teach him how to do his job, but now he has another
solution which goes just about everywhere he does.

NEVER STOP LEARNING.
If you can teach that and your studdents can learn that then I cannot think of
an organization that wouldn't be happy to train them for whatever they don't
know.
--
                Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg@redhat.com> * Red Hat Software

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       What fun is that?" -- 'Experiment Zero', Man or Astroman?

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       about friends:-)" -- Levente Farkas