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@phlipelder said in Interviewing Candidates for a Jr. IT Systems Administrator Position- Good Questions to Ask?:

@momurda said in Interviewing Candidates for a Jr. IT Systems Administrator Position- Good Questions to Ask?:

@phlipelder said in Interviewing Candidates for a Jr. IT Systems Administrator Position- Good Questions to Ask?:

In candidates watch out for this one that they may ask: "What PSA do you use?"

We avoid script jockeys at all costs.

What is PSA in this context?

Professional Services Automation software. It allows a support person to ask questions and follow a queue path through to an answer as one aspect.

I've never even seen one in real life.

@Carnival-Boy said in How Do You Evaluate IT Skills for Hiring:

In small firms where there is no in-house IT expertise and they're trying to recruit then employing you makes great sense. How else can they identify if the candidates no anything about IT? But as an IT Manager recruiting and running IT teams, if I had to pay you to identify competent staff over bozos then I'd have question why the hell I'm doing my job. That was the original point I was making.

I believe all IT people in small shops should question this. I don't see any role for internal IT below very large companies because there is no way to be compensated for your value while providing good value to the firm. Either you get paid more than you are worth to the firm, or less than the job should be worth to you. Or meeting in the middle somewhere.

@Lakshmana ,

I think you should start your training from the beginning. You have alot of knowledge of different commands, file systems, scenarios, etc, but you always seem to struggle with the basics.

Linux or anything else in IT is alot like math in the way that you must understand counting, and addition and subtraction before you can learn algebra and calculus.

Check out udemy.com. They have some great training material at a very fair price.

DevOps is when the software development person is also the person deploying and supporting the systems. If you are not writing the applications that you run, then you aren't DevOps. Hardware and software is just IT. DevOps means that you are a software developer (SE) first and foremost, but have to do the IT too.