> Something else that happens is that HR people who expect to get a lot of > applications for a given job will include the educational requirement just > to cut down on applicants, or as an easy means to rule applicants out > without reading more than the education section of their resume. While this > might eliminate people who would be excellent employees, it's arguably a > valid reason to include the requirement in some circumstances. > > The problem is, then other HR people see such requirements and assume they > have to do the same thing - chances are, the job in question here a) won't > have an unmanageable number of applicants and b) doesn't really require > higher education for the applicant to be successful.
LOL...I bet ya can guess what I think of most HR folks ;-) Sure seems quite insane to artificially weed out qualified or possibly perfect folks for a job just because it's harder to sift through the resumes. Why don't they just weed out all left-handed applicants....or maybe those that take 3 sugars in their coffee....yeah...that makes sense??? Seems like it might be better to: a) know what skills are actually required to do the job b) ask for those SPECIFIC skills instead of casting a wide net and then limiting by education Sure glad I'm the boss around here!! Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com Notice: This message, including any attachments, is confidential and may contain information that is privileged or exempt from disclosure. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed unless expressly authorized otherwise by the sender. If you are not an authorized recipient, please notify the sender immediately and permanently destroy all copies of this message and attachments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:3430 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Jobs-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11
