On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 03:46:03PM -0400, Duncan Hill wrote:
> A college graduate, with only an Associate's Degree and a CCNE
> approaches you/your company, with a resume that indicates no experience
> whatsoever, just the schooling from an associate's degree, a CCNE and
> knowledge of layers 1 - 3 of the OSI model.
Jeez, if that were the only way to measure a person's worth I'd
never be employed. I entered my current employer as a nerd from
from high school into a tech support position, and now
(3 years later) I'm the lead developer.
> Would you hire this individual?
You didn't mention what position they're applying for..
The best way to know if they're right for the job is to have them
talk to people that would work with them, or maybe to the people
that they're replacing. Ideally, you'd want to find a person who
did the same thing at their last employer that they're doing now,
but I've seen that backfire terribly if the interviewer was uneducated
(Someone working on a Fortran compiler development group for the
past 7 years is rejected from a Java compiler developer group position because
he didn't have experience with Java, for example).
You should not only evaluate their current worth but any potential
future worth. If they're enthusiastic, a lack of industry experience
may become a non-issue after they've been working there for 3 months.
But then again, based on the position they're applying for, this
could be terrible advice.
(database,table)
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Michael Bacarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Technical Staff / System Development,
New York Connect.Net, Ltd.
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