RE: /400 skills test

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob, what area are you in?  Does your company have a "reputation" among
AS/400 professionals?  Probably not, but around here there are several
AS/400 shops that people in-the-know avoid like the plague.

Also, when was "the last time"?  The Y2K issue dropped the market in our
area (S.E. Michigan) to a slow crawl.  From what I could tell, things
started slowing down last fall, dropped to darned near zero in December &
January, and started picking up again after that.  Even now, the activity
seems to be slower than normal.

If you subscribe to the MidrangeJobs-L list, you've already seen how many
people treat ads with little or no information.  You know, the "AS/400
Programmer/Analyst, 3 yrs exp., Send resume to:  J. Doe, address, CSZ".  I
would never respond to an ad like that.

Just my .02.
- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Voltz [SMTP:Bob_Voltz@Biometmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 3:27 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: /400 skills test
> 
> 
> 
> All this talk about tests, interviews, etc assumes that you actually have
> some
> people to choose from.
> 
> The last time I did any hiring, I ran ads for weeks in 4 different
> newspapers
> and talked to many headhunters to finally scrounge up about a half a dozen
> candidates that even knew what an AS/400 looked like.
> 
> Bob Voltz
> Biomet
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