IT Job Interview - The Basics of a Technical Interview

Most information technology job interviews involve abasic and some discussion of specific work
phone interview, technical interview and sometimes aexperience. The discussion of experience will often
personal interview. The phone interview is anlead to questions about specific choices and leading
introduction with the purpose of determining if therequestions from those responsibilities and projects. In
is a preliminary match. The job expectations aresome cases the technical interview is a list of
spelled out including specific responsibilities, relocation,increasingly difficult questions that gauge basic,
salary, overtime, hours of work, team environment,intermediate and advanced knowledge of topics.
career development, benefits and promotion.Companies should spend some time designing a
The personal interview has alot to do with seeing thetechnical interview that reveals technical knowledge
work environment and meeting key employeesfrom basic skills to specific skills that pertain to the
including management personnel and answeringjob itself. The format could include multiple choice,
technical and non-technical questions that revealwhat if scenarios and basic question and answer.
attitude and personality profile.Asking the interviewer what topics will be the
The technical interview is a key filtering tool mostsubject of the interview is always a good idea and
companies use and the focus of this article. Thesearching comments from other sources on interview
technical interview is most often conducted viastyle etc.
phone however can be in person. Companies want toThe network administrator interview often consists
know you have at least the basic technical skills andof questions involving the osi model, campus
knowledge specific to the opportunity beforeprotocols, wan protocols, routing and switch
proceeding with a personal interview. If the companycommands, basic network design and network server
has a lot of applicants the technical interview could beadministration. You should know basic routing and
more important and sometimes rigorous. Theswitch processes, troubleshooting commands,
candidates would then have a difficult interview thatprotocol selection and behaviour, network
goes beyond the job posting to see how deep themanagement and security.
candidate skill set extends.The ebook Networking Interview Guide is available
There is no set scripts for technical interviews. Inat eBookmall.
some cases it could be a few questions that are