OK, just reread the job description

Post #116,214 by broomberg 9/1/03 12:44:25 PM Reply	OK, just reread the job description Bad idea. The only reason to include these type of buzzwords is to get the resume past a screener. Which you should already have by virtue of the recomendation. So instead, a tech might be reviewing this and thinking: GEEZ. Another M$ idiot who thinks he can replace NDS with AD. shred
Post #116,216 by inthane-chan 9/1/03 12:54:19 PM Reply	The reasoning behind my statement. This being a government job, my resume first has to meet the requirements of the HR department - of whom I am acquainted, and I am quite aware that they know computers about as well as I know the inner secret dogmas of the Roman Catholic church. (IOW, what they know can be summed up as sqrt(-1)) So basically, they're going to go through the resumes, and discard any that don't meet their buzzword compliance level. Once it gets past that phase, it will go to a task force of people who I know very well - and they are quite aware of my opinion of Microsoft software, and understand that I am most definitely not a shill, nor believe that Microsoft products should be used as a drop-in replacement for any reason whatsoever. If this thinking is flawed, please let me know. In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #116,217 by broomberg 9/1/03 12:58:27 PM Reply	Makes sense As long as you are sure that you won't get killed by a tech.
Post #116,244 by Ashton 9/1/03 4:46:14 PM Reply	Seems a really interesting dance ..but Shtupid! (in the Arte Johnson German-soldier Laugh In sense, natch) Mutually exclusive zero-sum idjit game! (and yes yes, of course - seems the only One in this fucked-up nation-wide town). You guys therefore are.. ALL working with simpletons.. at the level of any "decision" making: because Those Are who run Murican bizness (to flog the obvious One More Time). IF... the buzz-words get past filtering by the HR / cum wastebasket emptying Dept .?. THEN... there are implications of er terminal Billyness-BS eating at the brain of the applicant - to the later cuth peruser of your screed! So there is No Hope of displaying any earned er 'Truth' in your own advertising because EITHER the toy-software slugs OR the actual Pros shall take offense. {sigh} You. Poor. Bastards. Reminds me of the perfect wry Maugam short story (once acted flawlessly by the immortal Sir Alec Guiness): The Verger ... with the world's longest shaggy-dog punchline -- if you're never gonna look it up and read this one, I'll give a synopsis; it's Good even when eviscerated ;-) Condolences, Oh weary traveller who has even survived a Jobean incarceration within the putrefying belly of the very-Beast Itself! yet.. remained unusually sane-ish, did Not take your AK-47 to work on the last day. etc etc Cheers too; Ya never Know.. Ashton I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't work. Gallagher
Post #116,250 by broomberg 9/1/03 6:30:14 PM Reply	We do something like that Have a job opening for Unix admin (yes, I DID forward the various resumes I currently have). Speaking of which: Box, check your email at tsiconnections.com. The long haired hippy looking admin does a tech proofing. He always asks: What is the best operating system? Any single answer at all is major points against you. If you truly believe there is a "best", no matter what the task (task was not defined), then you are incompetent to admin in a heterogenous environment. If you don't believe there is a best, but make one up to try to game the interview, you are lying and can't be trusted.

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