I had a recruiter interview yesterday in downtown. I had to go there during rush hour and I slightly underestimated how long that delay would be. The trip was only supposed to take 30 minutes but wound up taking a full hour. The funny thing is that it was the last five miles that took the most time. It wasn't too bad, though. I only showed up five minutes late. As it was they used the first half hour with me filling out paperwork so my tardiness wasn't even noticed.
The actual interview portion went fine. The guy just had standard questions and things like that. On one level it would actually be nice to do a contract with them because they offer all sorts of online training once you go on contract. It may wind up being lackluster but I wouldn't mind checking it out. Free training is free training.
The guy offered me the chance to take a skills assessment after my interview. Basically a technology quiz. They had them for all different topics. He said that taking the assessment can sometimes help land a job because they use it as a marketing tool. Also hiring managers use it as a quantitative measure of a candidate's knowledge level. So I took the ones for ASP.NET and C#. It was multiple choice so that made it a little easier. There were some questions that I narrowed down to two options but couldn't decide between the remaining answers. Some of them were in areas that I wasn't familiar with and so had to guess. Frequently I guessed correctly because I chose the answer that LOOKED like valid .NET syntax. The more you work with .NET the more you get a feeling for the way methods are named and used. That came in handy a few times. After the test they showed me my results and how I ranked compared to others who had taken the same tests. I came out above average on both tests. 20+ points above on the ASP.NET and 10+ points above on C#. So, that was a good thing. Hopefully that will help them find me something.
The recruiter says they have two potential openings which look good for me. He's going to submit me this week and I'll see where it goes. Hopefully things go well.
The actual interview portion went fine. The guy just had standard questions and things like that. On one level it would actually be nice to do a contract with them because they offer all sorts of online training once you go on contract. It may wind up being lackluster but I wouldn't mind checking it out. Free training is free training.
The guy offered me the chance to take a skills assessment after my interview. Basically a technology quiz. They had them for all different topics. He said that taking the assessment can sometimes help land a job because they use it as a marketing tool. Also hiring managers use it as a quantitative measure of a candidate's knowledge level. So I took the ones for ASP.NET and C#. It was multiple choice so that made it a little easier. There were some questions that I narrowed down to two options but couldn't decide between the remaining answers. Some of them were in areas that I wasn't familiar with and so had to guess. Frequently I guessed correctly because I chose the answer that LOOKED like valid .NET syntax. The more you work with .NET the more you get a feeling for the way methods are named and used. That came in handy a few times. After the test they showed me my results and how I ranked compared to others who had taken the same tests. I came out above average on both tests. 20+ points above on the ASP.NET and 10+ points above on C#. So, that was a good thing. Hopefully that will help them find me something.
The recruiter says they have two potential openings which look good for me. He's going to submit me this week and I'll see where it goes. Hopefully things go well.
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Good luck! Hey, if the computer programming gig doesn't work out, you can always come out here and uh, mine coal.
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