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PRESCREENING A TECHNICAL CANDIDATE

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SHAREPOINT DEVELOPER

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Reviewing a Job DescriptionSenior SharePoint ConsultantWe have a need for a highly skilled SharePoint Consultant for our office. The primary focus for this position will be

solution design, technology leadership, and application development in a SharePoint environment and other Microsoft and .NET technologies.

Engagements range from Enterprise Portal implementations, Extranet implementations, 100% custom application development, to eCommerce, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, MS CRM customizations, Enterprise Application Integration, and more. Applicants must have a strong background in a Microsoft development environment including Visual Studio.net, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, MS SQL Server. Applicants must have excellent object oriented development skills, documentation skills, project management expertise, and maintain great professionalism.

Required Minimum Skills: • - Degree in the area of MIS, CIS, or Computer Science • - 5+ years minimum application development experience in a professional environment • - 1+ years of SharePoint experience (MOSS 2007)• - 2+ years of .Net application development • - 3+ years of MS SQL Server • - Database Design skills• - Object Oriented Design skills

Desired Experience• - Experience with Silverlight, Dynamics CRM, BizTalk or Commerce Server • - XML, XSL, ETL, Web Services, and SOA experience also a plus.• - Experience with Unified Modeling Language, Agile Methodology, or MCSD also considered a plus!




Reviewing a Job DescriptionSenior SharePoint ConsultantWe have a need for a highly skilled SharePoint Consultant for our office. The primary focus for this position will be

solution design, technology leadership, and application development in a SharePoint environment and other Microsoft and .NET technologies.

Engagements range from Enterprise Portal implementations, Extranet implementations, 100% custom application development, to eCommerce, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, MS CRM customizations, Enterprise Application Integration, and more. Applicants must have a strong background in a Microsoft development environment including Visual Studio.net, ASP.net, VB.net, C#, MS SQL Server. Applicants must have excellent object oriented development skills, documentation skills, project management expertise, and maintain great professionalism.

Required Minimum Skills: • - Degree in the area of MIS, CIS, or Computer Science • - 5+ years minimum application development experience in a professional environment • - 1+ years of SharePoint experience (MOSS 2007)• - 2+ years of .Net application development • - 3+ years of MS SQL Server • - Database Design skills• - Object Oriented Design skills

Desired Experience• - Experience with Silverlight, Dynamics CRM, BizTalk or Commerce Server • - XML, XSL, ETL, Web Services, and SOA experience also a plus.• - Experience with Unified Modeling Language, Agile Methodology, or MCSD also considered a plus!

Silverlight: used for building Flash like applications on Windows

XSL: Extensible StylesheetLanguage for xforming XML documents

Web Services: API used by other applications on the Internet



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SharePoint Resume

Amber Jones

Professional Experience:ADC Company Dallas TX 2003 – 2008SharePoint Developer• Lead the development for an Enterprise Content Management

System utilizing MOSS 2007 and .NET technologies• Developer for a customized project management system utilizing

SharePoint portal and integrating it with .NET applications and Microsoft Project Server 2003.

Education: MSCSD Certification, Bachelor’s CS

Skills Summary: • 5 years application development with .Net (C#, VB and ASP) Java,

XML • 3 years of SharePoint experience (MOSS 2007)• SharePoint 2010/2007, SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio, Visual

SourceSafe• 3 years MS SQL development experience



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Sample Prescreening

Questions Possible Answers

In your experience in .NET development, which development tier do you prefer to work with?

“I have worked on all the tiers. Sometimes the layer I’m working on depends on the project—how familiar I am with the project and whether the project time frame allows for ramp-up time.”

What does your average work week look like?

“On an average, I work 45 to 50 hours per week, sometimes less.”

How many code cycles or prop cycles do you typically go through in a week or month?

“We prop every Wednesday. For the type of environment and business we are in, I think that frequency is appropriate.”




Prescreening Questions - SharePoint

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In your experience in .NET development, which development tier do you prefer to

work with?

You want to understand his/her areas of expertise

How many code cycles or prop cycles do you typically go through in a week or month?

(Is that acceptable to you? How would you change that?)

Tells you how candidate feels about his current situation, if work is too much or too

little

What part did you play in creating a process driven development environment, you know … like documentation, code review process,

unit testing

This gives you an idea the current environment; if it was documentation

centric, if this candidate was enthusiastic about the process

Would you mind sharing with me a customization or development project

you’ve handled in the past on SharePoint?

Looking for real world experience Does this person know her stuff? Does this

person interview well?

Questions Reasons




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With so many years of experience doing all tiers what areas are you at your best?

You just triggered something, shows that you genuinely are interested in this candidate.

How did you start your career in development ?

So, I’m counting, am I correct to say you have about 5 years experience in SharePoint

Development?

You are interested in this person, to learn more about him/her, and use this to confirm the number of years of experience required

from the JD/JR

Have you worked on a project where you were part of the blueprint design team –

architecture and then coding?

If involved in any complete lifecycle projects

What is the development process like at ABCThink of one project—what would you say

were benefits of using one methodology over another for this project

You want to know if they followed any standard processes for SDLC – like

AGILE/Waterfall etc

Questions Reasons




Prescreening- SharePoint

A. How many years experience do you have in ASP.NET, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio?

B. How many code cycles do you typically go through in a week?

C. Are you certified in any of the Microsoft Development tracks?

D. Why is it that developers prefer the middle and back end tiers instead of front-end? Which tier do you prefer?

Which of the following would be the best possible questions for Mary to ask Tim




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• Other Technical Recruiter Resources – IT Recruiter Blog + Tips

– Technical Assessment Document

– Candidate Resume Presentation to Client



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