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

On 28 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.embedded, in article
<f3ejth11nns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 27 May 2007 18:55:23 -0500 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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.

Those using the service of a lying pimp? Yeah, for two reasons; First,
our legal and HR types don't want to give even the faintest impression
of not being fair. Second, many of those who fall for the B/S from a
lying pimp are not doing their homework, and are thus less desirable.

You have a written contract with the recruiter that says "thou shalt
not modify resumes on penalty of loss of commission" to CYA, right?

Sure, Phil. Actually, fully three quarters of our hires come from
internal referrals. The employee providing the referral gets a finders
fee when the candidate finishes the probation period, and gets frowny
points if the candidate bombs. We think we get better quality that way.

| Some time ago, we had a new HR type who was adding requirements to those
| that we (the technical types) had specified.

You can't just give her specific instructions?

You have to give instruction to your HR idiots _not_ to add requirements
of a technical nature? I really don't know where HR dug this person up
from, but she thought that the other requirements were needed. Why, I'll
never know, as she apparently left the area after being canned.

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?

If you don't have a neighborhood "Kinkos", "Mail Boxes Etc." or similar,
check with your local Safeway or equivalent. Actually, I can still send
documents with efax, kfax, and who knows what else. I seem to recall
that ms word had the option to print to a fax connection, though I
haven't used word in 15 years.

I suspect one reason we don't accept email, web, or Word/etc. formats
is to avoid incompatible files. Postscript or PDFs usually run afoul of
the mail filters. Sure, OOo will handle several formats, but we tend
to be looking for the words, not the color of the crayon that was used
to create the document in some creative style. Only HR actually _sees_
the document, as they mask it, add a serial number, and then scan it.
All the technical types see is the ASCII printout of the CV/resume (we
don't get the cover letters either) - from which any identifying data
(name, sex, age, etc.) other than that serial number have been masked to
avoid any bias on our part. (That can come in the interview, but no
one would _ever_ admit to that.)

Old guy
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