Questions for Entry Level PC Techs?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday December 16, 2006 @05:15AM from the wheat-from-the-chaff dept.

Rick Zeman asks: "For the first time ever, I have to interview and hire (I'm not management, so an exception is being made) what we call a 'PC Technician', which is an entry-level IT person. While actual computer knowledge and how we do things can be taught, how to think, and the aptitude for troubleshooting can't be. In the readers' experiences, what are the best (legal in the US!) questions to ask an entry-level candidate to really evaluate them? They don't have the resumes, the skills, or the experience yet, so I think they have to be judged on other factors that are harder to qualify."

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Re:Windows skills are a must by godsfilth · 2006-12-16 05:52 · Score: 5, Informative

slightly off topic but i always found that "windows key" + "break" was the fastest way to find out the version of windows its only two button presses
Re:Good Starter by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-16 17:26 · Score: 1, Informative

> even going so far as to make wild networks with ring topologies or multiple routers.

Funny, those sound like valid topologies to me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_network
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_and_hypertree_ne tworks