Hi John,

I think that there are only a handful of companies where HR would actually involve (for a technical candidate particularly) somebody from the department where the vacancy actually occurred.

If we check out the sort of tripe which comes out in ads, by and large, for hiring computer personnel very few actually specify and match the skill sets to the job profile. It just seems to me that people who design the ads profile the job requirements by getting a 'brief' from the 'techie', and then, add some computerese which they have picked up over a few beers.

It would seem a lot of fannies need to be sore!

Sanjay



>Hi Len,
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>>More than once I was in the position of not being able to employ highly qualified & very able people, because the "Human Resources" department said that their personality profile tests showed that they did not fit the company profile & I had to employ less able people.
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>You are kidding me!
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>What a loser company that is (was?). I can't understand companies that hire based on stuff peripheral to the job itself. I guess, to quote Pink Floyd, they look for "a club tie, the firm handshake...a sudden look in the eyes, an easy smile".
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>Since I joined Microsoft last month, I find myself dealing with people (outside my team of course) that would be completely unhireable by conventional corporate standards but who kick ass here because they have a passion for what they do and are damned smart at doing it. And *that* is what contributes to the bottom line. Everything else is superfluous. Any hiring authority who doesn't understand that deserves a good swift kick in the tail.