[154638] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jul 6 18:26:32 2012
To: goemon@anime.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:07:51 -0700."
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:25:18 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:07:51 -0700, goemon@anime.net said:
> This is what baffles me. People keep putting stuff on their resume that
> they simply don't know anything about. TCP/IP expert, yet they don't know
> SYN/SYNACK/ACK or subnetting. HTTP expert but they don't know what a 200
> response is.
The Friday afternoon cynic in me says it's because it's a move with positive
paybacks. There's 3 basic possibilities:
1) You send the puffed resume to a company with clue, it gets recognized
as puffed, and you don't get the job. Zero loss, you weren't going to get
that job anyhow.
2) You send a boring unpuffed resume to a company sans clue. They recognize it
as boring because there's only 3 buzzwords on 2 pages, and you don't get the
job. Loss.
3) You send a puffed resume, and the guy doing the hiring doesn't know what
the 3-packet mating call of the Internet is *either*. Win.
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