>>>>>>>>>>> BTW, if you are a university student trying to impress potential employers over a long period of time before graduating, would you not want to work live?
And wouldn't companies have an incentive to watch these broadcasts to identify talented people? For example, software companies would probably get a better picture of how a programmer will work on a daily basis by watching them code on an open source project for long periods of time. >>>>>>>>>>>> Let me speak as a software professional. I'm working on a Ph.D in computer science, am employed by Motorola, and was a developer of Google Talk. Watching a coder's screen is really not an effective way of getting a feel for a coder's talent. There are a few reasons. The first is that, if a coder puts in an 8 hour day, it's going to take at least 2 hours to watch it. This is massively wasted labor hours for the reviewer. The second is that the minutae of the coding process is irrelevant; the final product and total hours spent is. Thus, an employer could learn just as much about the recruit simply by reading about the project on the recruit's resume and reading the source code of the final project. The third is that watching a coder's screen will tell you nothing about the skills in short supply among coders- social talents. Those are so important, I have been at interviews where my programming skill was never discussed...the interviewers just wanted to make sure they liked me enough to talk to me every day. Finally, employers have their own internal methodologies which will be different from how a coder works, and that learning curve will exist universally. -- Rhett. --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
