[olug] Finally, geek for a living

[Bill Brush]

LOL, I wish I was the hiring manager, it would be less work.

The way the University works, you have a committee look over the resume's
and decide on a "short list" that gets the interviews (after approval by
University HR).  The committee chair hands off the short list with the
relevant resume's to the hiring authority and sets up the interviews.  Then
when interviews roll around the hiring authority plus an interview team
interview the candidate.

I have the unusual distinction of being someone who has been committee
chair, AND on the interview team, as well as being the senior geek in the
department.  My boss is good for ferreting out personality weaknesses
during an interview, and she listens (quite well) when I give her my
opinion of their technical ability.  It generally works pretty well.

Bill

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 08/19/2004 09:42:13 AM:

> I wish there were more hiring managers like Bill out there. My last
> i-view, even though I took the initiative to research the product not
> having any 'real world business' experience took me down a few notches
(at
> least).
>
> Catch 22: can not get the experience without the job, so you take the
> initiative to at least get a smart as you can on the product(s); and you
> are still fighting a uphill battle.
>
>
> Irish
>
>