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

On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:57:22 -0500 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

|>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.

You probably do. That is a good way to find good people.


|>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.

Ooh. I used once Word 4 years ago. But I didn't look at what it could
print to.


| 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.)

We just get the original resume in the original format, unmodified. We've
gotten ASCII text, PDF, and Word (that OOo could handle). No PS, yet.

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