[Cialug] resume assistance

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2010-08-31 at 18:28:19, Andrew Vick wrote:
>I've been worrying about the HR people who receive the resumes -- the
>ones who don't know the tech, but are just going off of a list of
>requirements that someone else gave them.

As a side question about corporate culture, how large of companies have 
clueless HR people do the hiring? I occasionally hear allusions to this, 
but it is not what i've experienced.

The places i've worked usually form a committee consisting of the 
manager and coworkers of the open position, in other words, the people 
most qualified to know what qualifications they need. That committee 
reviews all the cover letters & resumes and picks a couple candidates to 
interview. HR is involved in the beginning to approve the job 
description that is publicized and then publicizing it, and again at the 
end of the process to make sure the new employee gets all the necessary 
paperwork filled out. But the middle part, actually selecting someone to 
hire, is done by the people who know what their team needs. I've spent 
most of my career either in academia or at fairly small companies 
though. I've only worked for a large company once, and then got to skip 
the normal hiring process because i was friends with my manager, who 
asked me to come work for the company.

-- 
Daniel A. Ramaley
Network Engineer 2

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