Re: Resume inflation (was Re: [SAGE] Tests for Systems Administratorinterviews.)

["Strata R. Chalup" <strata@virtual.net>]

Steve Simmons wrote:
> At least part of it is a reaction to ludicrous requirements listings in
> postings.  I went nearly a year with less than 2 interviews in spite of
> my qualifications ...

Steve, thanks for posting this.  I consider my own qualifications as 
rather less stellar than yours, but I've also experienced similar 
issues.  I found my last couple of contracts through previous employers 
and/or coworkers.  I can honestly say that the most valuable part of 
this kind of referral is being able to bypass the lowest level of the 
interview process.

Things like listing the flags on the 'find' command to do XYZ have to be 
paged in from archive memory or looked up via 'man' these days.  The 
flip side is that I can sit down and off the top of my head write a 3 
page document on how to construct a golden master production and testlab 
environment with reasonable change control procedures, or a baseline 
project plan skeleton for a major data center move.

But that won't get you through a technical screening interview where 
folks don't believe you could design the above if you don't know the 
contents of the CVS wrapper-of-the-week server config file.  Oy.

_Strata

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