On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:07:12PM -0600, Gregory Mockett wrote: > Its amazing how one person interprets a line and can create an entirely new > and even distracting and counter thread.
Chortle. Thanks for taking the foofuraw around here in good spirit. These guys do this to a lot of job postings, and I wonder if they drive off repeat business by doing it. > > And admittedly PhD is a poor test, but find me a brief (and cheeky (tone)) > one-liner that says "real creative and logical aptitude for solving the > unsolvable combined with a doggedness that achieves in spite of seriously > popular and dogmatic obstacles" and I will edit and repost. "Do you find MENSA meetings plodding and dull?" > > Actually, we have never hired a PhD. We like to hire what we call Pre-PhD, > because these folks are hardworking, creative, clever (genius), determined > to prove themselves, free-thinkers, who have not gone focused (read > narrow--think medical specialist). Many of our management team prefer > pre-PhD, because an academic setting will often ruin talent from a business > utility perspective--not always, but quite often--by exposure to highly > divergent accountability and 'success' standards. Heck, I've been pre-PhD for more'n forty years (except I don't think I have to prove myself). I must be prime material! Resume's at the usual spot: http://www.charlescurley.com Sounds like you guys should be looking for [home|un]schoolers. > > In previous hirings at other gigs, our Pre-PhD's have gone on to > perform--in many cases--to explore very intriguing new territory in > their PhD research projects in AI, Machine Learning, Graphics > Rendering, etc., and in such fine institutions as UNC, BYU, UofU, > UMich, etc. I knew a guy who had never had formal programming lessons, and didn't have a PhD (he corrected me when I addressed him as Dr.). But JPL/NASA put him in charge of telling them where Jupiter, the Jovian moons, the Voyager spacecraft and other delights that are rare were. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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