RE: Applying On-Line

Subject: RE: Applying On-Line
From: David Wood <davidwood -at- canada -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:49:28 -0500


| >| It's pretty funny/ironic that a writer who has (I'm guessing
| >| here, but I
| >| feel pretty safe) sold more copies of technical books than
| the rest of
| >| this list put together would not make it past the initial
| >| resume screening
| >| process maintained by many members of this list.
| >|
| >| Like Laura said, your loss.
| >
| >I'm not dumb. If Laura Lemay ever decides to submit her
| resume to us, I
| >will certainly interview her. But that's because she's Laura
| Lemay. Not
| >all candidates have that advantage when submitting a resume.
|
| I think the point was that with this strategy, you could discount or
| penalize a candidate *equally*as*competent* as Laura Lemay
| without ever
| knowing it, simply because she or he didn't use styles.

Absolutely, and I said as much in the very same post. However, since
I've never had any trouble filling an opening with a highly qualified
writer, what's the problem? Does it matter to me if I missed a qualified
candidate as long as I ended up hiring a qualified candidate? Not
really.

Hrrmm... it certainly doesn't sound like there *is* a problem. It would seem you interview well and are a good judge of character. You must be or you wouldn't have such a good staff. So you don't care if you miss out on a few good candidates? Fair enough. My personal view is that methods or processes (not that I want to bring up *that* topic again! :-) can always be improved, even if they're already outstanding, but... to each his own. Whatever works. <grin>

Cheers,

David Wood
Freelance Technical Writer
DavidWood -at- canada -dot- com


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References:
RE: Applying On-Line: From: David Wood
RE: Applying On-Line: From: David Knopf

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