Doug Hughes <d...@will.to> writes: > Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > In an era where companies put a lot of efforts for tactical and operational > > staff to align every thing they do with the company strategic goals , I am > > always surprised that we hire people who excel at doing well in interviews > > over people who can actually the job the job we need them to. > > > > > I'm with another poster. If there were a better alternative, wouldn't > everybody be using it? All you have is a resume and interview(s). You > have to ask technical questions in order to prove that the resume is > accurate, but you have to ask other questions too. If the person fails > the interview process for stress or other reasons, that tells you > something about the candidate, too.
There is an alternative. It's contract to hire. If you are worth me wasting a few hours talking to you, you are worth me paying you for a day or two of work. (and, after that, if you seem okay, a week or a month worth of work. If it turns out you aren't any good, I thank you for your time, pay you, and explain that I don't have any more work for you.) Personally, I think it's more respectful of the job seekers time, too. I mean, really, you expect me to sit in a room and get grilled for two to six hours, without pay? > I suppose there's always nepotism and cronyism. ;) I actually think some of the biggest problems with corporate america are a result of being too overzealus about avoiding that sort of thing.. I mean, prefered vendor lists? those started as a way to avoid cronyism, right? they've turned into a way to institutionalize cronyisim. I know I'm a whole lot more likely to give a chance to someone I know, or who knows someone I know simply because I know a lot more about that person than I know about someone who randomly gave me a resume. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don't assume you are stupid. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
