Times are tough all round but there's no need to make things tougher. Here in Silly Valley, things are tough and I have made some attempts to find a few people jobs in my spare time. These are people I know personally. I'm sure I'm not alone in this venture. I'm sure most if not everyone on this list would also help.
One headhunter who called me wanted to know if I was just plain nuts or just some sort of a good guy handing a job offer off to someone I knew who was looking. I told him it was none of his business <smirk>, just make sure to give so-and-so a call. Which they do. Unfortunately, what I have personally experienced in the past (rarely), and what appears to be happening at least with a few of companies currently is the following ... EMC job opening is posted. Resumes are sent. A few candidates are selected for interviews. Most of the interview centers on questions about how to solve some problems that are being experienced by said company. Then there's a decision not to hire anyone. Purchase req for new hires is closed. All candidates are rejected. A few months later, same company goes through the whole thing again. Only this time, there's a different set of questions to problems all being experienced by said company. Both sets of questions involving "how-would-you-solve-this" type of problems. I'm sure most of you know where I'm going with this. At the end of the day, the company or whoever in the company, has their solution or solutions. I'm not crying about this. My questions are ... Comes with the turf? Are you surprised to hear such a thing? Not surprised? Has is happened to you? Heard that it does happen but rarely and with some other company somewhere else? Happens all the time? Never happens? You gotta be kidden? So that's what that was all about! Thanks. Yea, but whaddaya gonna do about it? Well, if it does happen, so much the better I don't work there ... Etc ... Regards, Doug McKean ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
