From: Craig Columbus (Craig.Columbus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 13:57:04 GMT-3
I read the advertisement and the reasoning is pretty clear if you read
between the lines. See my commentary interspersed with the advertisement text:
Advertisement: Salary Range: $60,000 to $80,000...someone with a
minimum of 3 years experience in all 3 areas of the duties listed below.
Translation: This company wants a Mercedes on a Yugo budget.
Advertisement: If you don't have a good job history, this isn't
for you. No Job hoppers, No sponsorship and Local Candidates only!
Translation: They've had problems with turnover.
Advertisement: If you do not have very solid experience with all 3
or only want to perform 2/3, this job isn't for you!
Translation: The people left because they were expected to be
everything from helpdesk to development to network architecture.
Advertisement: Customer support experience dealing with Traders 3
years minimum (face-to-face and over the phone). Great communications and
presentation skills! The ability to be able to interact with some high
intensity people and be professional and provide results in a timely manner.
Translation: You'll be providing helpdesk support to some very
impatient and potentially rude people.
Advertisement: Secondly you will interact with traders to create a
functional and attractive front end that will display mission critical
information. Microsoft technologies are a must VB/ASP or VC++.
Translation: You'll be constantly hounded by traders who see
every little network traffic spike as a major problem. The traders decide
what's critical and what's not...you'll be their whipping boy/girl.
Advertisement: The third is, when necessary, you will assist the
tech support person with Break/ Fix issues. There is no set percentage of
time that you will spend on any one of these three duties. ....(no CCIE's
Please)
Translation: You'll be doing a LOT of helpdesk work. CCIEs need
not apply because you'll likely quit after realizing you worked your butt
off to get the CCIE and are now doing 90% end-user helpdesk work.
My opinion? Run like the wind from this position unless you're REALLY
interested in being highly visible, highly stressful, very unappreciated
position for significantly less than industry average pay.
Just my take on things...
Craig
At 06:16 PM 8/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Sorry about the OT, but here's a question relevant to most of us:
>
> Why do you suppose a company would post a job and specifically say
> that they don't
>want to hear from any CCIE's? I'm a little surprised and outraged by this.
>Are there so
>many CCIE's in Chicago looking for work (other than yours truly) that they
>need to put
>this stipulation in the description to keep a few hundred otherwise
>unqualified CCIE's
>from flooding their recruiters' mail boxes? Has the telecom deep-6 left
>this field that
>damaged? Has the credential now become a liability on my resume?
>
><http://www.chicago.computerjobs.com/job_view.asp?jobid=1418164>
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Jake
>9102
>
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