3 most important questions to ask as a recruiter or to answer as a job applicant

 All questions asked during an interview for a job come down to one of the 3 following questions:

1. Can the person do the work (qualifications)?
2. Will the person do the work (motivation)?
3. Will the person fit in company/team (adaptability)? 

The goal of the interview is that the interviewer has a clear view on answers on these 3 questions.

Read details and slightly different views here:

• 3 Things Employers Look for on Your Resume 
1. Can the candidate solve the specific top problems I have today?
2. Can the candidate build shareholder value?
3. Will the employee fit in with the company’s culture?
• The 3 Things a Hiring Manager Needs to Know to Hire You
  1. Are you likeable?
  2. Are you motivated?
  3. Can you do the job?

Ms. Sarah Zulfiqar wrote: We look for the following 4 A’s in a candidate:

• Attitude (behavior and posture)
• Appearance (attire and expression)
• Aptitude (skills and talent)
• Agility (communication skills)

Generally an individual excludes the first 2 A’s and concentrate on the last two. Observing the attitude of the interviewee helps the interviewer to determine if the candidate will fit in the prevailing organizational culture and environment. Appearance indicates interviewee’s interest towards the job and respect for the employer. According to a wise saying “You dress for the person you are going to meet and not for yourself.”

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Logitech Illuminated Keyboard

I am proud that my team delivered firmware for the new Logitech illuminated keyboard.

I especially appreciate working with this keyboard because it is illuminated. This is useful when you surf on the web or watch a video in the evening and you do not want to be disturbed by anything else than the computer screen.
Something positive is also the fact that you choose the illumination level, as opposed to some automatic ambiant light system which choose the level for you.

This development was a challenge for our swiss team, as we are more specialized in developing wireless keyboards. We had to use a new chip that we had little experience with. The biggest obstacles we encountered was not because of the chip itself, but because of the compiler badly translating the C language to assembly code: "what you write, is not what you get". And this triggered some bugs that we had great difficulties to track and correct.

Logitech Cordless Desktop® EX 100: a product I am proud of

Here is (yet another) Logitech product I am proud of:

I am proud of this keyboard because first of all I like to use it for my daily work. Though I have the opportunity to use all keyboards we are developing at Logitech Switzerland, I like the simplicity, comfort and ease of use of it, especially for it's low-cost price point. I can only recommend it to you.

I am also proud of this keyboard because it has been developed by a junior engineer coming out of school. The embedded software developed for this keyboard is 90% legacy code, and seasoned engineers do not enjoy working on legacy code as much as when they are doing completely new development. This is why I assigned this job to a beginner. She successfully stayed focused on the development of this keyboard and all issues occuring, especially when communicating with development teams in China.

interview d'une ingénieure en software embarquée chez Logitech

TEMOIGNAGE

Qui a dit que femme et informatique ne faisaient pas bon ménage? Ana Milosevic, jeune ingénieure d’intégration software de 26 ans pour logitech, nous explique en quoi son métier est passionnant.

Parole d'informaticienne: "C’est un métier excitant et plein de défis"

Logitech diNovo Mini: A product I am proud of...

The Logitech diNovo Mini's elegant design won't besmirch your living room; it gives the Home Theater PC owner full cursor control.


read CNET's review

I am the embedded software manager responsible for this marvelous product. Challenges we encountered:

• new usage model meaning that we had to mange lot of interactions with marketing and usability engineer.
  
• new key matrix concept because it's not the 101 keys keyboard.
  
• illumination scheme
• touchpad integration