[154659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Jul 7 00:01:15 2012
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 00:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAK__KzvCFqnV9F7E4kex481WMDcQwj_Mym3sWufzPLqHtP3GUQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, George Herbert wrote:
> If people don't bother to clean up the resume, either they don't
> understand what's relevant now, or they don't care, or they're trying
> to hide something.
Or they want to show they've been doing it long enough that they have
experience working with older gear younger people may not have even heard
of. I have experience with Portmasters, Pipelines, and home built Linux
multiport dialup PPP servers. None are relevant today. IMO, at least the
latter demonstrates some skills. Rolling your own 80-port dialup
server in 1995 wasn't just "yum install dialup-server" :)
I don't mention Portmasters or Pipelines on my resume, but I do have
Livingston and Ascend in the list of [many obsolete] router brands I have
experience with. Is that really totally irrelevant now?
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