[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/16/16 10:47 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <dsfrhkFm2i8U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>> On 6/14/16 11:28 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>> Jan-Erik Soderholm  <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>>>> Today I had a call from a consultant brooker in Sweden. He had seen my
>>>> profile on LinkedIn. He had an assignment from a large swedish company
>>>> to find 10-20 VMS developers. This was not for a specific project for a
>>>> limited time but to fill current vacancies. The guy sounded desperate.
>>>>
>>>> It seems as that company do not advert the VMS positions externally any
>>>> more, maybe there is no meaning, they call the jobb brookers instead.
>>>
>>> That is the case with pretty much all technical jobs.  The HR guys,
>>> instead of doing their jobs, contract the work out to headhunters, who
>>> bring in anyone they can find on the street.
>>>
>>
>> Worse still, they contract resume scanning out to pieces of software
>> that don't understand anything they read and can only see key words.
>> Thus, "5 years of experience" trumps "30 years maintaining Unix Systems"
>> because the program only looks for the word "experience".
>> Of course, it could be the other way around depending on what the
>> keyword is.  And you have no way of knowing.
>
> 30 years experience  maintaining Unix Systems. ;)
>

Which wouldn't be necessary if HR actually involved "Humans".
Applying for a job today is much more about creative writing
than actual skills.

bill