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

On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:23 -0500 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| 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.

Even if the candidate is genuinely qualified? And please do not give me
the BS that the candidate can't be accepted because you are afraid the
recruiter might sue. You have a written contract with the recruiter that
says "thou shalt not modify resumes on penalty of loss of commission" to
CYA, right?


|>...but the recruiters and HR people are, and will always be, ignorant
|>about Linux.
|
| s/about Linux//

There is that, too.


| 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.

You can't just give her specific instructions?


| 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 agree with this.


|>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

Businesses still have fax, unfortunately. That is technology that needs
to be depricated. How many people looking for tech jobs cannot find a
way to email or post a resume, or print it on real dead trees and snail
mail it, but have a fax machine?

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