8/14 All these bickering over degrees and jobs fails to take into account
into one critical fact: most jobs people get is through personal
\_ ^H^Hare
jobs is a plural noun
-motd grammar nazi
connections. Only newgrads have to go into an interview "cold".
For people with experience, this is hardly ever a problem.
\_ correction: most *good* jobs.
\_ I think you will find that, as the economy fails, even people
with experience will be forced to interview cold more often. We've
had almost ten years where that was not the case so you may not
have seen this for yourself, yet. -- wrinkled old crone
\_ No. Most tech people don't meet enough people in a position to
hire them later for something else. For the most part, knowing
someone will get you past HR and that's it. You're still cold in
the interview.
\_ Shucks. I guess I imagined my 2nd job out of school. Please, make
sweeping assertions like this and you don't have a chance of being
credible. Maybe that's why you're still in school.
\_ maybe you're an antisocial loser that doesn't have any
personal skills?
\_ Or maybe I left the Bay Area before the economy imploded.
\_ I jumped ship with my VP to my second job, so no HR nor interview,
100% personal connection. I posted to http://dice.com and got my third job
thru HR and interview, so no personal connection nor head hunter. |
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