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by djpinson

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I have a "non-technical" co-worker who is in the process of hiring a dbase mamnager.

They are not sure what questions to ask, do you have any ideas?

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by chris penn, cuol

Being a former recruiter, (now happily not) I can provide some insights here.

1. They need to ask how much experience in years the person has been working.

2. Your co-worker should obtain a list of popular DB products (MS SQL Server, Oracle 8,DB/2, etc.) and ask the candidate which products they have worked with.

3. A solid technical worker should be able to explain - in layman's terms - what specific projects they have worked on and how they have worked. For example, on a data warehousing project, the candidate should be able to explain things like how an OLAP cube works, etc.

4. Ask the candidate to highlight successes they have had in dealing with critical situations like DB crashes, corrupted data, and other unpleasant situations. For realism's sake, ask about situations that your company has faced in the past and see if the solutions the candidate comes up with are worse, equal, or better than yours.

Hope this helps!

C. S. Penn
Boston Automation, Inc.
www.bosauto.com

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