Tips for Technical Job Interviews
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With so many people sporting paper certifications -- MCSEs in particular -- it's no surprise that employers are turning to written tests to screen potential employees.
Karoline Hough, an assistant manager, says that her company uses TeckCheck to test job seekers. TeckCheck offers 140 vendor-independent tests on topics ranging from Visual and C++ to Unix. Companies may even ask someone to perform hands-on tasks as part of the interview process, says Jason Berkowitz, chief operating officer of Hunter Recruitment Advisors, a recruitment outsourcing company.
"They could literally sit a candidate in front of the computer and ask him to configure it in a certain way," he says.
