Re: *** Software Architect & Lead Openings @ Hyderabad

On 27 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.embedded, in article
<f3ave102csa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:

On Fri, 25 May 2007 22:39:06 +0100 Dave {Reply Address in.Sig}
<noone$$@llondel.org> wrote:
| In message <1180092334.435566.246660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Perfect
| Job Accord wrote:
|
|> ******** Please send profiles in Word Format to My Email-Id :

Actually, a so-called recruiter posting job ads in technical newsgroups
should be a flag that they are on a par with spammers and responding to
those ads may do more harm to your job search than good. Corporate
policy directs that HR not accept mail from recruiters who have been
caught posting ads in technical groups, as that generally indicates
they have no viable candidates, and are getting desperate.

| Isn't this sort of ironic in a Linux group. I suppose Open Office can
! manage it, but...

A _very_ frequent reason the lower quality pimps want the CV/resume in
word format is to allow them to "improve" it (giving the applicant skills
and experience that exactly match the job requisition). This is why our
HR types require the candidate to _bring_ a copy of their CV/resume to
the initial meeting - a mismatch raises a huge flag, and the candidate
will be asked about the pimp supplied version. That is usually enough to
get the pimp's company banned, and often results in the candidate being
rejected.

...but the recruiters and HR people are, and will always be, ignorant
about Linux.

s/about Linux//

Some time ago, we had a new HR type who was adding requirements to those
that we (the technical types) had specified. One requirement was some
number of years experience with Bill-ware, while another was a some form
of certification. Supposedly, she thought we had overlooked these
"fundamental" (to her) requirements. When we found out about these
additions, the "new" HR person became an 'ex-HR' person.

First, we've been microsoft free for years, so windoze experience is
often a negative. Second, we tend to look down (pretty hard) on most
certifications (unless they are required by law or similar), as this
_usually_ means that the individual was able to memorize material needed
to pass someone's tests - and this often is not very relevant to real
world technical problems. Some of the things the certificating entity
deem important may in fact be irrelevant, and on occasion, flat out wrong.
Microsoft and Novell are notorious for this, as are some others that shall
remain nameless.

I'll gladly accept your resume in OOo, PDF, HTML, or plain ASCII text
formats

Color us old-fashion, but we require it on paper (or exceptionally by
fax).

Old guy
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