[OPLINTECH] Questions re: interviewing and hiring for a technology position

[Phil Shirley]

We're going to be hiring a second full-tine technology person, and since 
it's been a number of years since I've hired anyone I'd be grateful for 
any help you could give me regarding the questions below.

1.  How do you test a candidate's technical knowledge?  When I 
interviewed people for a PC tech position years ago, I used to have a 
couple of PC's with the covers off in the interview room and asked the 
candidates to tell me about the components, and I also gave them a 
couple of hypothetical test scenarios to troubleshoot.  Any other ideas? 
  The position we're hiring for would include a lot of things beyond PC 
components, such as managing a Windows domain, troubleshooting network 
problems, etc.

2.  Do you require background checks or anything like that for 
technology positions?

Do you have any other suggestions specific to hiring a library tech. person?

Thanks for any help you can give me.  In case you're interested, the job 
posting is here:

http://www.cuyahogafallslibrary.org/jobs.php#atc

Phil

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Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary dot org

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