[Tfug] OT A word of thanks

[Bowie J. Poag]

Gee, i'm surprised your phone isn't ringing off the hook, there, buddy...

Here's a hint. It's alot easier to speak in a job interview when you 
head is outside your anal cavity. In my experience, sit down job 
interviews in IT are rarely about qualifications. They're about 
personality. By the time your phone rings, they've already decided if 
you're /qualified /or not. They don't call people in to have them recite 
what's already on paper in front of them. The purpose of the interview 
is to establish whether or not you're a damn wingnut, and how well 
you'll get along with the other employees.  Most of the time, they can 
tell if you're full of shit just by how you word your resume'. The 
purpose of the interview is to see if you shower regularly, and see if 
you're the type of person who can go more than 5 minutes in a room by 
yourself without shoving a butter knife into an electrical outlet. Given 
the snippet below, you've probably failed the butter knife test more 
than a few times:

"I remember a time, not that long ago where people had more
integrity to TELL YOU TO YOUR FACE that a prospect didn't have a skill that
they were looking for or for whatever reason, they just really didn't fit
whatever wants (looks, goals, what have you) that the company in a whole was
looking for. IF YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE DON'T CALL THEM IN TO BEGIN WITH. I
have been looking for someone to hire me for the last 7 months, I don't have
the time to be teased with the thought and hope ACTUALLY having some local
work."

If you run around thinking a prospective employer owes you /anything/, 
guess again.  They owe you nothing. And if you don't land a job, don't 
spout off about it. Be grateful for the opportunity, not resentful of 
the failure.

Cheers,
Bowie





Matthew T. Eskes wrote:
> I am writing this email in regards of one that I had sent out a while back
> asking fellow list members if they had any leads for some work. I would like
> to thanks those of you who had replied to me with the leads for places like
> TMC and such. I greatly appreciate it. However there were also some on the
> list that were in the hiring positions that emailed as well and I have to
> say that I am a little disappointed. While some of them called me in for an
> interview they did not have the decency to call me back or mail me a "you
> suck" letter as I like to call them, telling me that I wasn't hired on for
> whatever reason. I remember a time, not that long ago where people had more
> integrity to TELL YOU TO YOUR FACE that a prospect didn't have a skill that
> they were looking for or for whatever reason, they just really didn't fit
> whatever wants (looks, goals, what have you) that the company in a whole was
> looking for. IF YOU DON'T WANT SOMEONE DON'T CALL THEM IN TO BEGIN WITH. I
> have been looking for someone to hire me for the last 7 months, I don't have
> the time to be teased with the thought and hope ACTUALLY having some local
> work. My advice for you, and you guys know who you are, is to start thinking
> about the prospective employee, the employees and your bottom line if you
> would like to start having a better reputation. I have OWNED my own
> business, and had the SAME hiring responsibilities as you folks and I have
> come to learn that in order to have a prosperous and successful business,
> you have to build a reputation as being good to your prospective employees
> so that when they ARE NEEDED they will come back and hopefully become a part
> of your business family. You guys and business practices disgust me.
>
> Matt
>
> -- The Founding Fathers struggled for the principle that man could and
> should be trusted with his own destiny. Our current /domestic/ enemies,
> against whom those Americans in uniform are sworn to defend, do not believe
> in this principle, but we have again won a round in the endless fight
> against them.
>     
>    -- Jeff Cooper on the assault weapons ban ending 
>
>
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