Probing Interview Questioning For Day's, Or Any, Environment.

Over the years, REMEDI has developed a list of interview questions that we use when hiring consultants, associates, and full-time placement candidates. Some of these questions have been developed internally, and some with the aid of interviewing best practice resources.

Although technical skills are very important when it comes to IT positions, we feel it is equally as important to determine how a person handles difficult situations, how they like to be managed, and to what they attribute their past successes. Below is a shortened list of some the questions with links to a more complete list.

TOPIC OPENER
Tell me about your first job in this field.
Tell me about your leisure-time activities.

SELF-APPRAISAL
I see from your resume that (achievement, accomplishment)....You must be very proud of that.
How were you able to (achieve, accomplish)..?
What would you say makes you successful in what you do?

SITUATION-BASED
Would you prefer to work for a boss whose strength is technical skiills or one whose strength is managing and delegating?
Let's imagine we've hired you and you are having your (6-month, 1 year) performance review. What might (your boss) say about your work during that review?

Link to a larger base of questions...

Source: REMEDI Electronic Commerce Group and "Getting Behind The Resume: Interviewing Today's Candidates" by Jim Kennedy.

"SCENES FROM A SERVER"

It is no doubt that these are turbulent times. Layoffs. Downsizing. Cut-backs. Everyone trying to do more with less.

Sadly, many companies have a resource that remains untapped in their very own company....data. Each year millions of dollars, time and potential opportunities will be lost worldwide because companies have not realized the potential of the data they and their trading partners have.

Opportunities for increased integration and utilization of data internally and with partners has been the theme of many posts to this Blog. The video "SCENES FROM A SERVER" which follows is the first of a series that depicts the challanges and opportunities in regard to data integration...with a little humor added.

Click to view "SCENES FROM A SERVER"

Enjoy!

Is Growth in eCommerce Surprising?

We've been tracking the increase in EDI activity over the first months of 2009. From my own intuition and from your comments, this increase is counter to what any of us expected. At this point however, there seems to be an identifiable trend in the traffic, and it certainly wasn't from a source I expected.

What's been reported to me only goes to strengthen the idea that this world is increasingly a global trading community. If we didn't already have evidence of the interconnectedness of the international trading community, the coordinated decline in our mutual economies brings the phenomenon into focus. What's interesting is the way trading relationships have changed over the last few months.

Read More at Content Partner - EC-BP eCommerce Best Practices >>