On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Evan Pettrey wrote: > I feel we have gotten carried away on a tangent. I was simply asking for > advice on how to find more candidates. > > One person asked for an example of what resumes I was receiving and I > provided an example (and apparently not a good one). > > The issue at hand isn't about experience, and certainly not age. The issue > is that I am looking for a more effective way to find candidates. Emailing > four mailing lists and posting on Reddit has netted me a grand total of > three resumes.
The only effective way I've seen to hire people /or/ to find jobs is through contacts. I mean, this approach has obvious problems re: lack of diversity, but it's the only effective thing I've seen. If you just want resumes, write something on craigslist or a LUG list that is obviously written by a human that knows the job, rather than a HR robot, but usually when I try that, I end up with a lot of good looking resumes, but the person I end up picking usually shows themselves completely incompetent within the first few hours of actual work. I mean, I know that I cannot effectively interview (I believe that interviewing is just not a very effective way of predicting competence, but I know that when I interview someone, my estimation of their competence at the end of the interview will not be very accurate) so I usually give someone a short contract gig instead, but still, it's usually a lot easier to go for someone you know, or someone that knows someone you know, or in my case, a customer. interviewing and getting a job is a skillset unto itself, and has little overlap with the skillset actually required to do the job. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
