🚀 go-pugleaf

On 30 Dec 2017 14:40:39 GMT, jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote:

>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

I overheard part of a conversation some years ago...

"Sir, I don't care when the due date is, the concrete has to set
first, then we can put up the walls and roof..."

Even I could tell, the concrete had just been poured.