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

[Michael Moroney]

"Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason at comcast.net> writes:

>"Scott Dorsey"  wrote in message news:qt44o0$sjs$1 at panix3.panix.com...


>>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.

>  When I worked at Mega Big Engineering Corp, HR got themselves on of those 
>fancy resume scanners. After a few months using it,  one of them casually 
>announced to me that they were surprised how many IT applicants, according 
>to the scanning system,  all went to the same college. I asked, what college 
>was that? They told me,  a great number of them seemed to have gone to the 
>University of Nix.  U. NIX.


>>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.

>  I interviewed at a place that was looking for 5 years of VMS experience. 
>In 1980.

Maybe they wanted to restrict applicants to the original VMS developers?
(not sure if even they would qualify since I don't know exactly when the VMS
project started)

I once got a VMS job where a requirement was "Itanium assembly language" 
experience which I didn't have. NOBODY uses Itanic assembly language. They 
really wanted Macro-32 (VAX assembler) experience.
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