Re: Interviewing
While working at a consulting company I used to have to do that all the time. One time I saw this resume of a guy who was 3 times my age and as many times of years in experience. As Umar pointed out, I started with discussing his vast experience (with an impressed tone) I went on to asking some pointed, technical questions to which his answers were sub-par. Later we found that he was really good with people and hence had good references and nice work experiences, but technically was lacking skills. In the end I did recommend hiring him, but not for implementations but as a sales engineer (which mostly requires people skills with some good knowledge of buzz words).