Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

["Keatah@worldnet.att.net" <Keatah@worldnet.att.net>]

And she's making twice as much as you might believe because of style and
looks and way-of-thinking. Something a common worker cannot do.

I'm just having a ball with these comments, but can you argue with me on
them?


jsnyder wrote:
> 
> > > Donald Gillies wrote in message <7of2b2$ka2$1@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>...
> > > >"jsnyder" <jsnyder@trelis.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > >>This has been my experience over the last six months that I have been
> > > >>looking for a job;  25 years in the industry, h/w and s/w design.  But
> I
> > > >>don't fit neatly into the skill sheet that the HR droids use.  I even
> > had
> > > >>one tell me that I didn't have the required qualification of writing
> > > >>'firmware' even though my resume lists 10 years of embedded work.
> > > >
> > > >I think that as you grow older you can no longer compete for the
> > > >entry-level jobs.  If you are looking for an entry-level job at age
> > > >50, people look at you as if there must be something wrong with you,
> > > >why hasn't your career made progress ??
> > >
> > > So what valid reason would you have for why your career has not
> progressed
> > > further?
> >
> > Are you nasty? or what?
> >
> Obviously someone hasn't learned to read well, despite wherever *their*
> career is at the moment.  Nowhere in my original post did I say that I was
> looking for entry level work !!   Quite the opposite.
> 
> My point, as others have made clear, is that HR types are seriously
> deficient of  neurons when it comes to the ability to critique resumes, and
> really shouldn't be doing it at all.  When I needed to hire employees, I
> looked at all incoming resumes just in case the real gem that I was looking
> for worded his resume differently from the "requirements".  If a manager
> doesn't have the time to filter the resumes from interested applicants
> himself, I will suggest that perhaps he should find other work.
> 
> Finally, I can't resist this email example that came today from a large,
> eastern NC, fiber optic manufacturer (OK, it was Corning).  "Kim" sent me a
> 3 line email with her sig., attaching a four line Word document requesting
> my gpa in college, so that she could pass my resume onto the "hiring
> manager".  Apparently, her gpa was so bad that she can't distinguish an
> experienced applicant from a recent grad.
> 
> Joe Snyder