02-18-2010, 04:25 PM

Hi all,

Mac newbie here and this is my first post, so hope this goes well...

The company I work for just upgraded all 9 macs in our environment with new machines running OS X Snow Leopard. Meanwhile, my boss is looking to hire someone with mac experience to support these machines along side with our regular wintel environment and would like me to come up with some tech questions to ask during the interview process. As a wintel person all my life with minimum mac exposure, I'm hoping experts here can share some ideas on what questions you would ask during the interview if you're hiring? This person would need working knowledge on mac environment, OS X, Adobe products and networking skills with Active Directory.

Thanks!

02-19-2010, 12:31 PM

I think your last sentence already guided you in the direction for your technical questions. Technical skills can be assessed easily, the skill level can be assessed by doing a series of hands on test ( on a non-productive ) environment

Don't forget to assess the soft-kills like attitude, team player, engagement with stakeholder, clear thinking, interaction with customers, what are his career aspirations, what are his expectations of the role......
These are more important than technical skills.


Just my 2 cents.

Cheers ... McBie

02-19-2010, 01:34 PM

The hardest part would be testing their knowledge of networking Apple computers with Windows servers.

Really, it's not that hard of a job. How much are you paying and where are you located?