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Re: job screening question


From: Andriy Bilous <andriy.bilous () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:05:49 +0200

I think Ivan covered that
http://blog.ioshints.info/2012/03/knowledge-and-complexity.html
And also about hiring in general
http://blog.ioshints.info/2009/12/certifications-and-hiring-process.html

Many says that everything happens in the first 5 minutes of interview,
right chemistry if you like - the rest of the hiring process you're
looking for reasons to hire the person you like or for the reasons to
reject someone you don't like.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:05 PM, David Coulson <david () davidcoulson net> wrote:

On 7/10/12 6:56 AM, Bret Clark wrote:


Hence the reason he mentioned "skilled" person...


Right. A skilled person knows not to commit to anything in a meeting, or to
at least validate what they think before they open their mouth. Depends on
the audience, of course.

At least in my environment, there is not an expectation for someone to be
able to rattle off technical specifics from memory on demand - I've got an
iPad and Google for that. General concepts and
functionality/limitations/whatever are great in that setting, but no one
asks for the level of detail that takes 30 minutes to research and digest in
a meeting. The ability to remember obscure command line arguments, or parts
of a protocol header don't have much value, when you can look it about 10
seconds.

Anyone else noticed their memory has gotten worse since Google came along?
:)

David



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