I have 8 supposed crew chiefs that I am interviewing today. I have been very unimpressed with the previous ones so to save time in the interview I am handing this questionaire out in the lobby and will quiz them on the answers in the interview. These questions are based on working in the oilfields of remote West Tx using Trimble GPS and most of all my experiences. Let me know if you guys have any other good questions I could throw in.
Pick the best answer given on multiple choice questions
1. If you are facing the direction in which the sunrises, what direction is to your right?
2. If you turn a deflection angle 45° to the right and your total station was sighting N 15°W, what is your new bearing?
3. If you have an accident in one of our work trucks, what information should you gather at the scene of the accident?
4. How many square feet are in 2 acres?
5. How many feet are in 1 mile? How long in feet is a 4 pole chain?
6. How tall in feet is a 2 meter rod?
7. How many feet are in 1 vara? How long in feet is a rod as used in the 1700's-early 1900's to measure land?
8. If you are 200 miles from home and there is 1 fence corner under a tree that you have to shoot before leaving and you have 1 GPS, 1 200ft tape, 1 bag of nails, and 1 can of Vienna Sausages, what do you do?
9. You have to leave the office at 4am to meet a client by 7:30 your rodman does not show up. The company has a strict policy about crews only working in pairs. Do you
A. Leave the helper and meet the deadline
B. Wait on the helper and be late
C. Drive 10 miles out of your way to get the helper out of bed and still be late
10. You decide to drive to the house of the helper in the previous question to get him/her out of bed and they are hung over from the previous night’s festivities. What do you do?
11. You start a new job in your data collector with coordinates given to you by your project manager and you are sitting on an established control point. However your GPS will not start the radio and you have checked the connections of your cords. The client is breathing down your neck and screaming curses at you. What else should you check before you call the office?
12. You need a property corner on an adjoiner’s property that you do not have permission to enter. What should you do?
13. You and your equipment get caught in a rain storm. What should you do with your equipment when you get back to the office?
14. If a landowner tells you to move a pipeline that you are staking for a pipeline company what should you do?
15. It is a hot day and 6pm you are out of water and have not eaten since 6am. Your rodman is yelling at you to look at the leprechaun. What should you do?
A. Give them water with saltine crackers
B. Give them a coke and put them in the shade
C. Give them an enema
D. Take them to town for a drug test
16. Your truck battery dies in the middle of the desert 15 miles down a gated lease road. You have 1 set of jumper cables, a GPS base and rover system, a machete, a shovel no ATV. Your phone is dead and there is no traffic around to ask for help. What should you do?
17. You are doing a survey. You have taken 200 shots and returned to your base to pack up. You find that your base is running but your tripod is leaning at a 45° angle. What should you do?
18. You get a title survey (lot job) and find that your rodman has forgotten the prism. What should you do?
19. On a well pad your H2S monitor goes off. What should you do?
a. Leave
b. Locate source and test additional H2S monitors
c. Carry on with job
18. A group of illegal immigrants crosses your path while staking a pipeline in a remote area near the border. They are in bad shape and in need of water. You have a cooler full of water. What should you do?
19. Your helper is stung by a Africanized honeybee and goes into anaphylactic shock, his/her throat swells and they cannot breathe or talk. What should you do or get from your first aid kit to help him? (choose the best answer)
A. Suck the poison out and drive to the hospital
B. Use the snakebite kit and drive to the hospital
C. Give them Ibuprofen and drive to the hospital
D. Give them Benadryl and drive to the hospital
E. Use the scalpel to cut out the wound /poisoned area and drive to the hospital
20. Why do you want to work for us?
A. You need the money so that you can eat this winter
B. you’re bored and have nothing else to do
C. Fellowship with your Co-workers
D. You have dreamed of becoming a surveyor since you were a kid
E. It looks exciting
BONUS****
EVERY 15° OF LONGITUDE THE TIME ZONES CHANGE. WHAT TIME IS IT AT THE NORTH POLE?
I like to give this test:
1) Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10, What's the answer?
2) If there are 3 apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
3) How many birthdays does the average man have?
4) A Doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How many minutes would the pills last?
5) A farmer has 17 sheep, all but 9 die. How many are left?
6) How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
7) How many outs are there in an inning?
8) Some months have 31 days, how many have 28?
9) A clerk in a butcher shop is 5' 10" tall. What does he weigh?
10) How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
11) Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
12) Do they have a 4th of July in England?
How much do you plan on paying the party chief that passes your test?
Like everyone else that I worked for before I got licensed...As little as I can get away with.... However even idiots are well paid these days in the oil field
Please, hell pretty please for that matter, post the answers you receive!!
Have a great weekend! B-)
> I like to give this test:
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> 1) Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10, What's the answer?
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> 2) If there are 3 apples and you take away two, how many apples do you have?
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> 3) How many birthdays does the average man have?
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> 4) A Doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How many minutes would the pills last?
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> 5) A farmer has 17 sheep, all but 9 die. How many are left?
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> 6) How many animals of each sex did Moses take on the ark?
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> 7) How many outs are there in an inning?
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> 8) Some months have 31 days, how many have 28?
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> 9) A clerk in a butcher shop is 5' 10" tall. What does he weigh?
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> 10) How many two cent stamps are there in a dozen?
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> 11) Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
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> 12) Do they have a 4th of July in England?
1- 70
2- 2
3- 1 per year, unless he was born on Feb 29.
4- Depends on the prescription
5- Is this job located in Wyoming?
6- None, the story isn't real
7- 6, if the game is called correctly..
8- all of them
9- Meat
10- 12
11- Is his widow's sister from Wyoming?
12- yes mate
When can I start?
That will work out great. Perhaps more interviews in the near future will come up from the turn around.
Here's a good one
You're 100 miles from anywhere and you have to get done today.
You just realized that the bottom 4' of the only fiberglass level rod in the truck is missing.
You've got 4000' of paving to grade and mark cuts.
What do you do?
Here's a good one
Subtract 4 from the HI and add 4 to each....oh... Nevermind. LOL
DDSM:beer:
> BONUS****
> EVERY 15° OF LONGITUDE THE TIME ZONES CHANGE. WHAT TIME IS IT AT THE NORTH POLE?
Hell, it's 5 o'clock somewhere; my as well be the North Pole....B-)
Keep rotating the lawn chair, Radar. It is ALWAYS 5 o'clock for the survey party.
DDSM:beer:
My favorite interview method is "here is a bush hook...lets see if you can keep up".
>BONUS****EVERY 15° OF LONGITUDE THE TIME ZONES CHANGE. WHAT TIME IS IT AT THE NORTH POLE?
5 O'clock
Well its like this I didn't get a private school education, 2 college degrees and work my ass off cutting bushes and digging holes in the swamps for 4 years to get licensed so that I could be generous and pay some supposed crew chief with tattoos on his eyelids the $21-29/hr and $150/day per diem that they they all claim is offered at other jobs. And no I am not going to give pay advances. Especially when: cant tell me what a vara is (they have all been working in Tx for 5+ years), cant tell me how to 2 tape a fence corner and check it in the field, want to cut out bee stings with scalpels, think that the north pole has its own time zone, give dehydrated crew members enemas and drug test, and want to drag drunk co-workers to the field to meet clients.
Also if you put on the questionnaire that you want to work here "for the fellowship" I will offer you $5.00 per hour and tell you to defend your answer.
You would be surprised how many of these guys get glowing reviews from previous employers (RPLS's at pipeline survey companies) but cannot prove to my head crew chief that they can run a level,total station and GPS for the final stage of the interview.
However, I did hire 2 people that didn't get all of the answers right but wanted to learn and work their way up.
Worst Questions Job Interviewers Ask....
Comments are the best.... I can only assume these are asked by companies with an HR dept....;-)
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you...
Here's a good one
Just use it but don't use it with another rod, though.
You forgot to ask "How much dirt is in a hole that is 1 foot by 1 foot by 1 foot high?".
> > 3) How many birthdays does the average man have?
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> > 4) A Doctor gives you three pills telling you to take one every half hour. How many minutes would the pills last?
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> > 5) A farmer has 17 sheep, all but 9 die. How many are left?
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> > 11) Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow's sister?
> 3- 1 per year, unless he was born on Feb 29.
he has 1 and only 1
> 4- Depends on the prescription
one hour. You take one at zero minutes, one in a half hour, and another in a half hour after that and they are gone.
> 5- Is this job located in Wyoming?
9
> 11- Is his widow's sister from Wyoming?
If the man has a widow, he is dead. It is probably illegal for the widows sister to marry a dead man.
> When can I start?
It depends.:-)
Here's a good one
Paden, good question to see if they know what they're doing, not just how they usually do it.
Some more possible questions:
**You see someone traversing with a mix of large Topcon and Leica prisms. Explain why they have a problem.
**You need a project benchmark that won't get destroyed for a 10-acre commercial site. You will transfer the elevation to it by GPS. Which do you use and why?
-Fire hydrant flange bolt with a chisel mark, on the corner of the property
-Marked corner of concrete base of a major power line tower at the edge of the property
-Marked corner of the highway bridge abutment adjacent to the project.
**You need a NAVD88 elevation on another project. Which do you use and why?
-C&GS disk on a highway bridge abutment 1/4 mile away, using GPS transfer to your project BM.
-Same disk, using a level
-OPUS session elevation on your project benchmark
-C&GS disk on the abutment of a railroad bridge over the creek and adjacent to the project.
-The stamped elevation on a USGS disk in the highway bridge across the same creek and adjacent to the project.
**You have been asked to find the diameter of a tank but it is behind a high, locked fence. What measurements do you take so that the office people can calculate the diameter? (Ok, not something you do often, but it tests original thinking, and can be an interesting trig problem)
Here's a good one
I have used different prisms with Trimble Access which allows different prism constants to different foresights. Most of my prisms are Leica but I have a couple of minus30s which come in handy from time to time.
It wasn't practical with the Leica 1203/TDS Ranger combination I used, though.