On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:33:04 -0400 Dan McDougall <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That's not how it works. THIS is how it works: You need to hire > someone in IT... You post a job (often via the HR department) and > they get 250 resumes. In your job description to HR you wrote > something like, "Experience with object oriented development" so 200 > resumes immediately get ignored because they don't have "object > oriented" anywhere. 40 of the remaining are immediately thrown away > because you also put "Experienced software developer" and those > resumes only listed things like, "Architect", "Development Lead", or > "Programmer". > > In the best-case scenario you get 10 resumes to look at (in my > experience they usually whittle it down to 3-5). If you're lucky HR > actually contacted these people and determined that they really do > exist, are looking for a job, and live within a reasonable distance > of wherever it is they'll be working (i.e. "Sorry, we're not going to > pay to relocate you from the middle of nowhere"). At this point you > can pick & choose which folks to interview over the phone. Unless > something is horrifically bad in the resume (grammar/spelling usually > do it for me =) you'll probably at least talk to them on the phone. > > Then once you've spoken to a few of these people you'll lose hope for > humanity and go back to HR with something like, "Is this all you > got?!?" Later you may get interviewed by the media and you'll be > likely to say something along the lines of, "We have a really hard > time finding qualified IT people!" Excellent point! > > The point I'm making here is that it is EXCEEDINGLY RARE that you'll > ever have two (or more) candidates that did equally well (at a "good > enough" level) in your technical interview. There will pretty much > always be "the guy that did the best" and "everyone else". At that > point in the hiring process education is absolutely 100% > meaningless. No one is going to say, "Well, this guy answered all of > our questions very competently but he doesn't have a degree... Let's > go with the guy that answered half the questions correctly instead." Except the non-degreed competent guy never got interviewed because he got screened out by HR because the job description demanded a bachelors degree. SteveT --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
