the overall outlook of the resume , resounding company names that they worked for (no matter in what capacity), the school they attended and the overall physical appearance, if such information is available.
You also remember that John, the guy you play poker with has intervened
in favor of one of the candidates. The short list of candidates is assembled, with your friend's candidate on top. You remember that the
hiring manager owes you a favor and, voila, the fresh DBA is here!
On 10/24/2003 11:54:32 AM, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
Bill
So you are an HR person with a well-written job description in hand
and a
stack of resumes on the other (how may would you say a job posting
would
garner today -- 200?) It has been a long week of major and minor
employee
issues and the hiring manager has begun making ugly noises about "when
am I
going to see some candidates?". So you stuff the whole stack in your
briefcase with the illusion of a nice quiet evening to get some
solitude to
really go through these resumes. But there are issues with your
teenage
daughter and your wife's reaction to these issues, and you glance at
your
watch, see it is 9 pm. and realize you meant to go through those
resumes. So
you sit down, read the job description once, looks like Greek, read it
again, no better. Now you pick up the first resume and try to relate
the
words on the job description to the candidate's experience. You say to
yourself, hmm . . this is going to be a long evening.
Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:
> Pre-packaged questions are always a bad idea. When a company needs a
> DBA, it should know what do they need him for. Do they need them to
but that would provide that the company actually know how to define job duties and then convey them to HR who would then be able to screen applicants on actual experience and not just groups of letters.
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"I'm going to work my ticket if I can..." -- Gilwell song
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One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations,
whether
one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me
that,
after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of
any
scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. - Albert
Einstein
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