Hobbies? Does the candidate build their own environment on vm's or personal hardware to work with maybe? Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2013, at 9:15 AM, fmh <fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is rather easy to measure a candidate's technical knowledge. However, > having interviewed many many DBA's, I'm finding it difficult and less > reliable to measure these 2 traits ... > 1) Being self-driven and initiative to learn on his/her own. > 2) Owning work and progressing to completion to best of his/her ability. > > After being hired, inefficiencies on these 2 areas appear as the most > common. > > How do you validate these 2 traits in the interview process? > > ---------------------------------------- > Thank you. > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l