This discussion reminds me of a true IBM story. I was part of a small group that wanted to recruit a couple interns through a partnership we have with a particular university. I was responsible for writing the internship listing, and I asked the other group members for their input. One of them insisted that we include a requirement that applicants must major in computer science or engineering. I remarked, "Well, I didn't, and is that really important?" The other group member replied, "We aren't interested in interviewing French history majors, are we?"
I didn't immediately reply to that question, but I had a hunch. I asked a first line IBM technical manager in the group what her major was in college. "French history," she replied. We dropped any mention of majors from the listing. As it turned out, one of the interns we hired majored in pre-med biochemistry, and that intern became a full time IBM mainframe software technical specialist. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
