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Job interview advice for sys admins

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As a hiring manager of systems administrators (sys admins) for the past three years, I know the kind of candidates I'm looking for to join my open source team. My responsibility, of course, is to try to hire the best and brightest from around the world. The candidate's responsibility is to tell me what they've done and how, and what they want their future to look like. I am also looking for that spark. That thing that tells me this candidate is dedicated to the success of open source. read more

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my advice for hiring managers:

don't just look for people who already contribute to Free Software, look for people who you can turn into new contributors. especially consider those who don't otherwise have the opportunity to contribute in their free time:

http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-an...

greetings, eMBee.

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