Open ended questions

[icecream-guy]

(S/B clueless hiring managers)

Will start this off with a good one,  got this one in a questionaire from a resume submission,  among other questions they stuck this in...

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Please describe your professional experience with TCP/IP network communications:

Please describe your professional experience with Cisco switch configuration and Cisco router configuration, and include the number of years of experience you share:

Please describe your professional experience with routing protocols and include BGP and OSPF specifically:

Please describe your experience with Cisco Unified Communications/Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)


now how should I go about answering these, that first one is a doosey,  and what is my word limit for that 2& 3 question. sheesh I could write an essay

[deanwebb]

Be brief and to the point, but also detailed and of appropriate length.


Honestly, I think number of years and level of expertise is what they're looking for. Include acronyms as appropriate for stuff you're comfortable with. Looks like the role is a R&S job with the ability to back up the Voice guy.

[Dieselboy]

I think there's a formula / code that is run to generate these questions. Something like:

Please describe your professional experience with [%Cisco topic%] and include [%Stuff we're looking for, this week%] | redirect candidate-response-email.php
;end

But just what Dean said

I got a survey email the other week. The opening line was something like:

Hi %(PersonNameHere),