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

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jsnyder wrote in message <7oqe09$368$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>...

>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.
>

That depends on where the CVs come from.  In the UK,more recruits are hired
via agencies than via advertisements.  The agencies tend to do the opposite
of the HR people - they submit any CV with the slightest degree of
commonality with the requirement. To reduce this I had to spend a lot of
time briefing the agencies as to what we are loking for.  Despite this we
still receive huge numbers of CVs, so many that if HR did not weed them out
for me I could dspend all my time reading them - and then I would WANT to
find other work!!

Ian