Michael Leone on 1 Oct 2008 17:38:09 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] help with filling a sysadmin position


Josh Goldstein wrote:
> - Does anyone have any suggestions regarding the job description?
>    You could say "15-20 mins from Center City Philly" - some people might assume it's too far away and in a dull location.  
> I would definitely be more attracted to a job offer if it said
something about the age range of your current employees and whether or
not you and your managers are Dilbert bosses. Mentioning work-sponsored
social events would be great.

An ad that says "your boss will a Dilbert character", and you have to
work with a bunch of old people. ROTFLMAO

> You mention 24x7 support, FreeBSD, MTA and DB performance tuning,
interacting with clients, AND programing. That makes me wonder if the
new person would be part of an IT team and what size is the team,
because doing all of that or even some of all of that seems like it
could easily snowball into waaay too much work for just one person.

Those are things that are mentioned in the actual interview, not in the
ad ...

>  what percent of the company is IT and what is other depts.

Never saw that type of info in an ad for any kind of position, much less
 an IT one.


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