On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:08:16PM -0700, Todd Walton wrote: > On 6/2/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Experienced only -- sorry to have to say it. > > For as long as I can remember, this has always been a problem. > Everybody wants experience, no one wants to give it. I'm currently > looking for a job, and I'm working through a temp agency until I can > find that job. The temp agency tried to get me a job doing inventory > control. It involves heavy use of Excel. I tested at greater than 55 > wpm and the highest Excel score the tester had ever seen. Yet I > didn't get the job because the company wanted someone with "more > inventory control experience". I saw the job description. With a > day's worth of explicit training, and an ongoing committment to > answering my questions, I would have been one of their best employees > ever. I am confident of this. So, since I didn't get that job, the > temp agency got me another, lesser, job. It was supposed to last for > two days, today and tomorrow. I did so well today, and worked so > efficiently, that they didn't need me to come back tomorrow. I worked > a lot faster than the lady was expecting me to, and everything got > done. I deprived myself of a full day's worth of money. > > The point being: there is **way** too much emphasis placed on > experience, in my experience. I saw a job listing for Linspire help > desk that wanted a bachelor's degree in computer science!! If I had a > bachelor's degree in computer science I would *not* be manning the > phones, thank you very much. > > Being without a job sucks. >
If your interviews are like the above, I'm not surprised you don't have one. Lan "paid and paid and paid my dues" Barnes -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
