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Subject:Re: bogus resume requirements From:Janice Gelb <janiceg -at- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 14 Sep 1995 16:08:14 GMT
In article <9509131302 -dot- AA02098 -at- btrd -dot- bostech -dot- com>, rjl -at- bostech -dot- com writes:
>Fred Wersan said:
>>There is an ad in the back of the Sept. issue of INTERCOM (an STC publication)
>>that asks candidates for a tech writing position to send a resume
>>including ...SAT scores (1400 or higher)
>Fourteen Hundred!!! Holy $#%^!!!!
>If memory serves, that's 200 points -higher- than the SAT score that MENSA
>requires for membership!!!
Depends on what year you took the SAT. Mensa has two different rates at
which they accept people, as either the test has gotten harder over the
years or people have gotten dumber :->
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