Tips for Technical Job Interviews
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Allan Hoffman
Expect to be tested on your technical knowledge and skills. Do research to find out what the employer really needs. Polish your communication skills -- and your shoes. You walk into an interview and minutes later you're being asked to set up a user's email account on a workstation. Sound unusual? It shouldn't.
Interviews for technical positions, be it database administrator or Perl programmer, often include challenges far beyond the usual questions about career goals. Many technology job seekers, wowed by all the talk of a labour shortage, sometimes think a position is theirs for the asking. With the right skills and experience, you've certainly got an edge, but thinking you've got a lock on a job -- any job -- is courting disaster. Approach the interview with confidence, but be prepared for the unexpected. Here's how to ace your next technology interview.
