Re: /400 skills test

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

>  From:    Bob_Voltz@Biometmail.com (Bob Voltz)
>  
>  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

The place where I now work had been conducting interviews for several MONTHS 
before my resume showed up.  I think the HR error in judgement that led to 
the dirth of suitable candidates is that they were accustomed to getting 
plenty good candidates for other corporate tasks through local advertising, 
but the company is located in relative boonies ... you need to reach out with 
ads to where /400 people are & also sell them on coming to the boonies where 
the cost of living is a fraction of the big city & the crime rate is zero or 
almost zero.  I now live in a place where the number of book stores per 
thousand population is one of the highest in the country.

This topic has also come up in conversations between students at IBM schools 
... some companies have to hire candidates from other countries due to the 
apparent dirth of qualified AS/400 people here ... I suspect that HR folks 
could use some demographics on where there are excesses of S/3X people 
seeking to move up, and this is another reason for heavier support of IBM's 
PIE Partners in Education with local computer science education.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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