Re: [tlug] OT: Please educate me...

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:10:40PM +0900, Brett Robson wrote:

>to the technical people for approval. This is one of the things that
>technical people find very frustrating getting our resumes past the
>people who don't understand and through to the people who do, recruiting

Yes, that's a problem in a lot of companies, especially large ones.
Somebody in HR (who probably doesn't really know much, if anything,
about technical jobs) goes down a checklist and compares it to
the received resumes and makes a judgement whether it goes to
the hiring manager or not.

One of the things I really like about my company is that we
while we do have an HR department, and they are very good and
very helpful and do all kinds of good HR stuff that HR 
departments should do, they don't filter our resumes.

In my department, in fact, when we have openings we usually
go out and find our own resumes.  We have an account on
monster.com, and my boss will usually put an add up there
and get some resumes.  I prefer to post on local user group
jobs boards such as uuasc-jobs.  For a position we're filling
right now, all but one of the people who were called for a
phone interview were found on uuasc-jobs, and one of them 
is coming in tomorrow for a second interview.

When I was hired, my first contact with HR was an offer letter.
Up until that point, the only people I had interviewed with,
or even spoken to, were the hiring manager (now my boss, the
director of software development) and the CTO.  That really
impressed me about this company from the start, and I am not
disappointed; it's a great place to work.


>My resume was once rejected because I had PL/SQL whereas the job
>requirement said SQL. PL/SQL is Oracle's version of SQL and it was an
>Oracle job.

That's hideous.

Jonathan
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