Re: Employers' mistaken job requirements?

[Marsha Kamish <MKamish -at- STEWART -dot- COM>]

That's exactly the tack I take even though I do have some tools listed on my
resume.  If they ask me about Virtual Heartache I give them a blank look and
say "An application is an application. I've learned 'leventy-seven so far; I
can learn Virtual Heartache."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Higgins [SMTP:Lisa -dot- Higgins -at- LEVEL3 -dot- COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 3:30 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Employers' mistaken job requirements?
>
> You know, I have a fairly flip response to tools requirements. If I'm
> asked
> about my tool expertise (I don't have it on my resume), I sort of laugh a
> little and pooh-pooh the idea. I'll say something like, "Oh, I don't worry
> too much about what tools I use. I have preferences, sure, but I can use
> what you have." I explain that I've been using computers for about
> eleventy-bajillion years now, and I make a living writing documents. DTPs
> and graphics tools pretty much all work the same (within subsets).
> Different
> tools have the features in different places. That's OK. I'll find them.
>
> At least in my field, I guess I wonder how it is that someone could expect
> me to fumble my way through a complex, half-implemented telecommunications
> provisioning tool or something well enough to write a user guide about it,
> yet be completely baffled by something like Microsoft Word. It just
> doesn't
> make sense to me.
>
> Lisa.
>
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