Daniel wrote:
>The solution is to educate employers and other people about the
concept of general skills
About five years ago, one company I interviewed with decided that I
was computer illiterate, because I did not know Excel. That I
understood how spreadsheets worked, having used both 123 and Visicalc
was irrelevant.
>says they have certain computer skills.
The current trend in HR is to have computers search resumes. If the
desired strings are not found, the resume is skipped over. If a
resume doesn't mention Excel, for a office admin position, literally
nobody knows that the resume exists. [About three or so years ago I
read an article about a SysAdmin who scanned in Larry Wall's resume at
his company. A year later Larry's name had yet to be listed as a
possible candidate for any IT position at that company.]
xan
jonathon
--
A Fork requires:
Seven systems with:
1+ GHz Processors
2+ GB RAM
0.25 TB Hard drive space
