Work In KC Area?

[ghldbrd at ccp.com]

I agree, dealing with contract-to-hire or headhunting agencies who know
NOTHING of technical fields is quite often a dead end.  Like Strother
Martin said to Paul Neuman in Cool Hand Luke, "what we have here is a
failure ---- to communicate."

I had an interview with one of these people who was looking for a person
with strong RF skills.  Being in the tv business, I said I had them.  She
had NO CLUE how television got from the tower to her television set ---
probably thought it was like the lights; you had to have cable to get
anything.  I lost out in the interview trying to teach her this fact.

Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO

> What is sad is that all of the techniques we all have to use to get to
> the interview is done merely to impress an HR flunky who has NO business
> selecting technical employees.  Most of them have programs or scripts
> built for them to run against resumes to search the text for keywords.
> So if I don't have "Windows 2000 server" or some such verbiage in my
> resume, it hits the bit bucket.  I've had some people say my resume is
> too long winded or too long (being two pages), but I've also been
> complimented on its thoroughness and completeness.  I try to be concise
> with the major duties I've had at different positions, basically
> summarize tasks, and then I have keywords after each job to satisfy the
> text searchers.  Can't hurt.  I started this on the advice of a couple
> of contract companies who didn't have the vaguest idea what Ghosting was
> or how it is used, but wanted to be able to present me to client
> companies who do.
>
> Brian