On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > On 18/12/17 13:28, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> >> However, I have been doing quite a bit of hiring, quite successfully, I >> might add. I am not prejudiced one way or another. Your résumé doesn't >> count. Your education doesn't count. What you can do for the team >> counts, and that is measured during the interview process. > > > While I agree with most of what you say, I disagree with you here. Your CV > (résumé) does count, just not necessarily in the way most people expect. > > I haven't often been involved in hiring, but the few times I have we had > more applicants than it was feasible to interview. We used CVs as the only > thing we had to filter with, looking for *interesting* people. Exactly what > "interesting" meant was somewhat arbitrary; we put one person through to > interview because she was a cellist, and that would have given us a complete > string quartet (she didn't get the job, sadly).
Yes, I once chose to interview someone because he had on his resume that he was an award winning duck decoy carver. He also did not get the job. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
