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

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In article <qt5frq$v84$1 at pcls7.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>"Lee Gleason" <lee.gleason at comcast.net> writes:
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>>"Scott Dorsey"  wrote in message news:qt44o0$sjs$1 at panix3.panix.com...
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>>>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.
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>>  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.
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>>>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.
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>>  I interviewed at a place that was looking for 5 years of VMS experience. 
>>In 1980.
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>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)
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>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.

I must be nobody. ;)

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