[Info-vax] Possible VMS jobs - Backup and Recovery Consultant in Washington DC

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
>Practically nobody in HR knows what the technical terms means.
>
>So they do their best. Sometimes they are lucky. Sometimes they are not
>so lucky.

Sometimes they use a computer scanner to check your resume and application
for keywords.  So if they want you to mention that you have taken high
school algebra, mentioning that you have a doctorate in mathematics will
not get you through the filter.

Often the job description is basically a set of keywords for the filter
which have been massaged by someone in HR to make it look like coherent
text.

>Just like if I were to try and describe the required qualifications
>for a good ballet dancer.
>
>The smart people in HR send the final ad text to review in the hiring
>department.

Sadly, often the management in the hiring department has no idea what
they need.  I have been to interviews where they were hiring embedded
systems programmers, but where it was clear that what they really needed
was a source code control expert.
--scott
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