Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Dennehy
nvironment. > > > > > Lisa will need to quote you in the article. Ideally that's name, > > company, title. But if necessary we can be circumspect as long as it's > > clear that the source is for-real > > Damion Alexander > Systems Administrator > Higher Ed. > ___

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Dennehy
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Jan L. Peterson wrote: > That company no longer exists. > That may be the object lesson there, methinks... -- Mark Dennehy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Dennehy
nt metrics. And the stress level is always going to be different between the two scenarios as well. -- Mark Dennehy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Dennehy
it's predicated on the employer having access to more information than the interviewee. Which is a more long-term problem for us (in that if we solved it, our lives would all be better, but solving it wouldn't really be popular). -- Mark Dennehy ___

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Dennehy
hire would be three months of living on job interview nerves. Not good for your mental health, that. -- Mark Dennehy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Writer's Block

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Dennehy
ly underestimate delivery times, etc) What your roadmap was for the development of the system architecture and what your rationale was, and contingencies for things like budget cuts or sudden ramp-ups in demand -- Mark Dennehy ___ Discuss mailing list Discus

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Dennehy
dation recommendation) > > "Mary was on time when it was critical for her to be so." (but what > about the other times?) > > "Chris always showed up on time for work, as long as you took into > account his own personal

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Dennehy
s ago, despite the > fact that I'm making $25k more a year now than I was five years ago. > If the offer wasn't good enough five years ago, why would the same > offer be good now?   > >        -jan- > -- > Jan L. Peterson > http

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Dennehy
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: > Boy, you can't take no for an answer, can't you? ;) I thought that was supposed to be a positive character trait? :D -- Mark Dennehy ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@l

Re: [lopsa-discuss] What do you ask when hiring a network admin?

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Dennehy
_ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lopsa.org > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >  http://lopsa.org/ > -- Mark Dennehy __