Re: Contract Rates & CISSP or not

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Harry Tabak, sie wrote:
> Crispin Cowan wrote:
> <snip>
> > Personally, I use CISSP as a filter for who *not* to hire, as in "if
> > they have a CISSP, I don't hire them". Rationalle: we do advanced R&D,
> > so I'm shopping for brilliance, not competence & willingness to do
> > drugery with dilligence. The CISSP (hopefully :-) assures a minimum
> > level of competence, but IMHO the social filter of those who seek such
> > certification makes them unlikely to be a brilliant innovater.
> <snip>
> > --
>
> But would the resume of someone with "brilliance" get past the HR
> gatekeeper without the magic keywords of "CISSP" or "PhD"?  Assuming
> that you were with an organization that was sufficiently large to
> require an HR Dept, and assuming that you were too busy to personally
> screen a few hundred resumes.

There are those that are hired through HR and then there are those that
get hired and HR have some work to do to make it happen.  You're more
likely to find those with "brilliance" don't go through HR.

Darren
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