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Article #618145Re: Doubts about the HR departments that require knowledge of technology that does not exist.
From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:40
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:40
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 12:29:34 PM UTC-5, JimP wrote: > >> A book I bought to help me imrpove my interview skills, pointed out >> that HR was originally set up to find qualified people. That changed >> to decrease the number of applications read by the interviewer. >> >> Problem is, I have noticed them not call in peopel who were qualified >> and call in for interview people whose pplicaiton should have been >> circular filed. > > Personally, some companies (both HR _and_ IT) offered me > jobs for which I was wholly not qualified. I was very > surprised by this, but it happened on a number of occasions. I > couldn't understand why they did so. > > On the flip side, I submitted my resume in response to job ads > for which I seemed to be well qualified, yet never heard back. > > As mentioned, some I.T. managers had strange attitudes when it > came to hiring. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, a lot of MVS > (S/370-OS) sites would not consider anyone without S/370-OS > experience, regardless of their background. S/370-DOS was not > adequate. A solid record on a Burroughs was not adequate. > > Also, some managers would not consider anyone without similar > industry experience. That is, an industrial plant would only > consider people with industrial experience; someone from say > an insurance company would not be considered (and vice versa.) > I could sort of understand this to some extent, as there are > certain industry-specific skills that developers should be > aware of. But on the other hand, a software developer is not > gonna be out running the blast furnace or rolling mill Are you kidding? They would have to know enough to talk to the experts who do the work. Chemistry and physics in the real world have rules, no matter how the software is written. If the software messes up just a little bit w.r.t. the chemistry of cement, the entire batch has to be dumped. /BAH
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