[65021] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: This may be stupid but..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Mon Nov 10 04:06:32 2003
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Richard Irving" <rirving@onecall.net>,
"Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Cc: "Vadim Antonov" <avg@kotovnik.com>,
"John Brown (CV)" <jmbrown@chagresventures.com>,
"Nanog List (E-mail)" <nanog@merit.edu>, <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:06:19 -0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote:
of my best hires (at sri, .5k hosts, circa 1987) were simply
> trainable. an english major (f) from reed, and a cs major (m) from a
> school that taught cobol as a modern language -- i hired him for his
> night job skills, managing an auto body shop, managing ordinary joes
> holding tools.
My best hire, now one of my good friends, was someone who was on a
teacher-training course but had to drop out due to a long term illness. She
came to me recommended by my girlfriend-a-the-time as someone who would make
a good office junior. She is now one of the bext web/perl/sql coders I know.
A willingness, nay - a NEED, to learn and be open to new concepts is what
forward moving technology sectors (like ours I hope) need.
Acronyms mean sh*t. When involved in any hiring process, I actively avoid
CCIE/MSCE/etc. laden resumes. Mentioning once, fine. Using them like
religious phrases is an indictation of, well, stupidity.
> i'm recruiter-proof. i'm not sure i'd want anyone who wasn't.
Aye. I have *never* used my CV/Resume in getting a job. I still have one,
but it's very out of date.
Peter
