Assessment Task for new IT Technician

[ihaveaproblem]

Sorry to hear Asomodai. At least you gained some experience from the interview processs that you can learn from and take foward for when the next oppertunity arrives:)

 

As for AD. Depending on how busy you are could you get the NM to spend some time teaching you? Or maybe see if it's possible for the school to pay for you to go on a course.

You can always set up a Virtual Machine like plexer said using the free 180 day trial of server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating System

 

There's plenty of guides on the internet you can work through or books you can use.

[mac_shinobi]

Could be some or all of that and then some.

 

When interviewing Tech candidates I normally had quite a few to do so opted for a written quiz made up of some multiple choice and some free form answers but only ever as a supplement to the interview & 'group chat' stuff we ran.

The quiz I wrote was orchestrated to be quite evil just to get an understanding of strengths and weaknesses technically with a view of at least rationalising where the candidate would need support and where they would excel.

 

I know of colleagues who would unplug components from a PC and ask the candidate to troubleshoot the issue physically which is absolutely fair enough as a task also.

 

I would not worry about being up against recent graduates if you have experience in schools I always valued that over a degree. (which if you have one makes your experience a brucey bonus.).

 

I would not worry about this at all, just make sure you're well up on your DHCP, & DNS and troubleshooting approaches.

 

Good luck.

 

I can vouch for that lol, not that its a bad thing

[bondbill2k2]

Don't worry too much I had interviews at 4 schools last year before getting my job. I had no experience either, just a degree . Each school asked me back for final interviews me vs 1 other often out of 10+ from the first interview applicants. Lost out on experience each time tho.

[MK-2]

unfortunately schools (and most businesses in general) are looking for the most experience on the least pay. so even if its a junior tech role, they probably want someone who can do a bit more than what is advertised.

this isn't a criticism of you, i'm just saying that could be why they didnt choose you.

 

and i know how hard it is to get experience in. it's hard to (for example) get experience on virtualisation on a large scale if your current employer isn't going down that route. you can hardly buy the equipment yourself and test at home. but keep at it, things will pick up mate

[Jiser]

Its hard not to feel bad when you don't get a position.

 

However pick yourself up and get self-studying. Observe your boss more. Play around at home, get some books and download some materials. If you have nothing to do at work then theres your chance to learn more relevant to the job and your future. Nothing wrong with that.

 

Perhaps looking at getting some Microsoft Certs under your belt.

 

Don't just look at schools, there are alot of lower tech / helpdesk jobs about.

[gshaw]

Best thing you can do in your current situation is to set up a lab at home using ESXi, Virtualbox etc and as mentioned above use the 180 day trials from Microsoft to get a fully working Server 2008 \ AD \ DNS \ DHCP \ whatever you want environment running that you can mess around with to your heart's content

 

Best way to learn is to play with the technologies in a test environment and see what it all does imo...