Amen! On 08/10/2015 01:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 2015-07-31 18:04, Bill Freeman wrote: > ...
> While I'm often amazed that candidates for engineering jobs will show > up with _no portfolio_ (especially when we're talking about software > jobs: mechanical engineers, for example, may have a legitimate case > that it's hard to get personal access to the tools they'd need to > build a personal portfolio; but the tools required to develop > software?); I'm even more amazed that people on the other side of the > interview-process often have no idea what to do when a candidate does > have a portfolio of work available for review. >> Before that, unless you're in a field where you can publish while doing >> graduate work (it's own form of internship), you have to take low paying, >> crummy jobs. In some fields they're called interships. >> It's the non-paying ones that are real scams. > That was one of the things that soured me on college: not only was the > experience > non-paying, they were actually _charging me_; and the `experience' part of the > experience wasn't all that great, either. And I had to buy my own books. > And I had to buy my own equipment. And the amount of _time_ that it seemed > to require if I actually wanted to be good at `being a student' was crazy. > > ... > > (I retrospect, the last time I was talking to a recruiter > who said I'd have to move to CA even if I was going to end up > in the company's Boston office, I guess I should tried proposing: > "how about I just stay in NH, I do CA software work on the CA schedule, > and you get to pay me like I work in MA?"). And just to show you how ego-centric the field was/is, most recruiters will actually ding you for "taking that attitude"! --Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
