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Re: How do you differentiate yourself (UserFriendly)
Subject:Re: How do you differentiate yourself (UserFriendly) From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 2 Dec 2007 10:22:27 -0800
I don't find samples useful for candidate evaluation unless
I can ask questions about them and get the candidate's reply
face-to-face. The earlier in the hiring process a prospective
company asks me for samples, the less interested I tend to
be in their position.
Gene Kim-Eng
<doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote...
> I make the extra effort to keep my samples with me, period. And if I
> had a dollar for every recruiter who balked and dropped me because I
> was unwilling to e-mail my samples, !...
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