On 6/2/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Experienced only -- sorry to have to say it.
For as long as I can remember, this has always been a problem. Everybody wants experience, no one wants to give it. I'm currently looking for a job, and I'm working through a temp agency until I can find that job. The temp agency tried to get me a job doing inventory control. It involves heavy use of Excel. I tested at greater than 55 wpm and the highest Excel score the tester had ever seen. Yet I didn't get the job because the company wanted someone with "more inventory control experience". I saw the job description. With a day's worth of explicit training, and an ongoing committment to answering my questions, I would have been one of their best employees ever. I am confident of this. So, since I didn't get that job, the temp agency got me another, lesser, job. It was supposed to last for two days, today and tomorrow. I did so well today, and worked so efficiently, that they didn't need me to come back tomorrow. I worked a lot faster than the lady was expecting me to, and everything got done. I deprived myself of a full day's worth of money. The point being: there is **way** too much emphasis placed on experience, in my experience. I saw a job listing for Linspire help desk that wanted a bachelor's degree in computer science!! If I had a bachelor's degree in computer science I would *not* be manning the phones, thank you very much. Being without a job sucks. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
