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

To: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
Subject: Re: Resume inflation (was Re: [SAGE] Tests for Systems Administrator interviews.)
From: Elizabeth Zwicky <zwicky@otoh.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:53:49 -0700
Cc: sage-members@sage.org
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On Sep 16, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	True enough, but you are on the other side of the inflation problem.  
> Most Google jobs I see advertised appear to require an MS or better.  
> Indeed, of all the tech jobs currently being advertised, I'd say that 
> Google is probably one of the worst offenders on the requirements 
> inflation side of the house.

When an acquaintance at Google asked "How could we get you to come work 
here?" I answered "Not rejecting my resume twice would have been a 
great start -- when I applied I would have been interested, but since 
then I've moved on to other things."

In all fairness, Google has way too many resumes, and I'm not certain 
any company could deal well with the flood of applicants.

Of two recent conrtract jobs, one I got through a personal acquaintance 
and the other was actually from SAGE-jobs.

	Elizabeth Zwicky
	zwicky@otoh.org

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- Re: [SAGE] Tests for Systems Administrator interviews.
  - From: "Strata R. Chalup" <strata@virtual.net>
- Re: [SAGE] Tests for Systems Administrator interviews.
  - From: "Mark C. Langston" <mark@bitshift.org>
- Resume inflation (was Re: [SAGE] Tests for Systems Administratorinterviews.)
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