This book is the accumulated observations of the author's programmer job interviews with hundreds of job candidates.  The author provides useful insights into what characteristics make a good computer programmer, and offer their accumulated techniques as an aid to interviewing a programmer job candidate.

This handy guide has a complete set of programmer job interview questions and provides a complete method for accurately accessing the technical abilities of programmer job candidates. By using computer programmer job interview questions that only an experienced programmer knows, you can ask the right interview questions and fill your programmer job with the best qualified programmer.

Key Features:
 

• Assists the IT manager in choosing the best-qualified programmer professionals.

• Provides proven techniques that can accurately ascertain a job candidates suitability for any computer  programmer position.

• Lists the personality characteristics of successful computer programmer professionals and how to identify candidates with the right demeanor.

• Describes methods for evaluating academic and work history for programmer professionals.

• Includes managers’ checklist of personality and background characteristics that indicate a suitable programmer job candidate.

• Covers techniques for quickly scan resumes and find the best-qualified programmer job candidates.

• Includes oral interview questions for programmer/developers and Programmer Analysts.
• Includes C job interview questions, C++ job interview questions, Cobol job interview questions, UNIX shell script job interview questions .

About the Author:

Janet Burleson

As a top executive with BEI, Janet Burleson has extensive experience recruiting, hiring, training and managing a variety of Information Technology professionals. Janet has been a Webmaster for many years working with the web since its early inception and provides high level web consulting services that improve the market status of Fortune 500 companies including web search rank positioning, keyword optimization, content optimization, web community relationships, web site design, web usage tracking and web site configuration.  Janet is also one of the world's pioneering horse trainers, having developed the successful Guide Horse Foundation donating her time and effort to train miniature horses to guide the blind. www.guidehorse.com

Table of Contents:

 

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Programmer professional evaluation       Preparing the Programmer job offering       Preparing the incentive package       Defining the Required Job Skills       Basic skills for the Programmer Professional       Basic IT skills    Programmer Certified Professionals    The value of Programmer certification       Training for certification    Characteristics of a top-notch Programmer professional    Sample job sheet for an Programmer DBA       Programmer Job Requirement sheet       Education       Work experience       Programmer Certification       Publishing and Research       Personal integrity       USA Citizenship       Additional Specialized skills   Chapter 2 - Qualities of the successful Programmer professional    Evaluating Employment History       Fraudulent work history       Evaluating Personal integrity       Evaluating Academic history    Personality of the Successful Programmer Professional       Self-confidence       A Curious nature       A Tenacious disposition       Polite Manners       Self-Motivating       Detail Orientation

Chapter 3 - Roles for the Programmer Professional   Managing the Programmer Job Interview    The Role of the Programmer professional       Installation       Configuration management       System security       Monitoring and tuning       Backup and recovery strategies       Troubleshooting       Communication skills   Chapter 4 - Initial Screening of the Programmer Professional    Resume evaluation for Programmer Professionals       Developing questions for interviews       Appropriate Appearance    Telephone Screening Programmer Job Candidates    After hiring the candidate Chapter 5 - The on-site technical interview     Telephone pre-interview questions    In-depth Technical Interview questions        General programmer developer interview questions        C programmer job interview questions        C++ programmer job interview questions        Cobol programmer job interview questions        UNIX shell script programmer job interview questions        Programmer analyst interview questions       Programmer Performance Tuning Job Interview Questions       Programmer Troubleshooting Job Interview Questions      Mainframe MVS JCL programmer questions      SQL programming questions     object-oriented programming job interview questions     relational database job interview questions     network job interview questions