Help! Unemployed

Galchin Vasili vngalchin at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 9 23:12:37 UTC 2001


--- Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 August 2001 12:26 pm, you wrote:
> 
> > What I suspect that stupid people in HR are using
> > some kind of scanning software that maybe choked,
> > core dumped, so these "duraki" were to
> simple-minded
> > to just read the resume. HR people in a hitech
> company
> > should to some degree, in order to do a competent
> > job, actually learn something about hitech
> terminology
> > and what it means. They are too lazy and too
> stupid.
> 
> If they knew what the buzzwords _were_, they'd be in
> sales or marketing.
> 
> If they knew what the buzzwords _meant_, they'd
> probably have better jobs.
> 
> I've tried to teach HR people what to look for in
> resumes, but gave up when I 
> realized that the knowledge required to find
> interesting resumes goes way 
> beyond simple phrase matching. 
      ^^^ Ned, beyond mere syntactic pattern matching
.. yes?? If so, now we are singing from same 
page!

vasili

> 
> If you're submitting resumes in Microsoft Word, I
> wonder if it would help to 
> add every known buzzword in an invisible part of the
> text even though it 
> wouldn't show up when viewed or printed.
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> currently: Stanwood, WA
> email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
> homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com
> 
> 


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