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RE: Tooting my own horn...Resume Information

Subject: RE: Tooting my own horn...Resume Information
From: GeneK <gene -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:07:45 -0800


This has always concerned me, especially during periods when it's difficult
to find people (and for some reason, the only times I've ever gotten approval
to hire is when *everybody else* in the whole #$%^& world is after the same
people I've needed). My approach in those times has always been to tell HR
to sort the resumes, put the ones they think are the closet fits to my job
description first, then send me the rest as well so I could scan them all if their
first selections didn't work. Don't know what I'd do if I was trying to hire when
there was a wealth of candidates and hundreds of applicants for every opening,
but so far I've never been a hiring manager with a signed req in my hand during
such times.

Gene Kim-Eng



At 09:49 AM 3/19/2003 -0800, Mike O. wrote:

Think about it from the perspective of the existing employees,
not the jobseeker. Sometimes the techies at a company are the
ones most annoyed by over-zealous or clueless HR screening (I'll
spare you the personal anecdotes).

Look at it this way: If your company is hiring a new person to
work with you in a critical role, do you want to choose only
from the pool of people who managed to make a good first
impression on your non-techie HR screener?






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