| 1. | Write a detailed job description for an open position in your group or for a position for which you would like to be able to hire someone.
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| 2. | Does your company hire people above, below, or at the skill level required for a position? Illustrate your answer with some examples.
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| 3. | Who in your group is good at interviewing, and who is not good at it? Why?
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| 4. | What roles do you think are missing from your team?
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| 5. | How diverse is your team? What could you do to recruit members whose ethnic and cultural backgrounds differ from those of the people currently employed?
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| 6. | Who would be able to act as a mentor for a junior SA, if your group were to hire one?
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| 7. | Are there junior SAs in your group who are not mentored? If so, what good and bad experiences has the junior SA had as a result of the lack of mentoring?
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| 8. | How have you made the interview process pleasant for a candidate in the past?
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| 9. | How have you made the interview process unpleasant for a candidate in the past? Why did that happen? What can be done to prevent that from happening again?
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| 10. | Write a job description for someone who would have the skills you feel are lacking in your team.
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| 11. | What technical questions would you ask of a candidate for the position for which you wrote a job description?
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| 12. | What nontechnical questions would you ask of a candidate for that position?
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| 13. | What are the best things about working in your current company?
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| 14. | What are the worst things about working in your current company?
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| 15. | What motivates you to stay at your current company?
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| 16. | If you needed to start looking for a job tomorrow, where would you want to work, and why?
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| 17. | How well does your company do at retaining employees? What do you think the reason for this is?
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| 18. | What do you think your company does or could do to stand out as a good place to work?
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