From: J. Kata (j@jkata.com)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 22:12:09 GMT-3
It's both.
Good for people who are honest.
Bad for people who are less than.
Good for people who know what they are talking about.
Bad for people who don't have a clue.
Good for people who perform well under pressure.
Bad for those who don't.
etc.
- Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Stong" <istong@stong.org>
> Note sure if you are suggesting it was a good thing or a bad thing that
> he did that. I think it sounds like a great idea in that it would give
> you insight into many aspects of the person. If they had all sorts of
> technical skills on their resume but couldn't answer questions about
> them then they may be prone to exaggeration, lying, etc. Also if you
> are looking for a technical person it's also a good way to weed out
> those who are not. I've found in interviewing people that often a
> resume can look great with lots of awesome looking jobs and skills but
> they turn out to have done little and know even less :)
>
>
> Ian
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Jan K
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:21 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Bad Interview Experience
>
> One interviewer I knew intentionally didn't read anything past the
> skills
> portion on the resume lest he become too impressed by the subject's
> experience (or underwhelmed).
>
> During the interview he would basically grill you on whatever you dared
> to
> put down in your skills section, looking for weak spots and fibs. If you
> passed, the interview process proceeded. If you failed, goodbye. It was
> just
> a very efficient and meritocratic way of narrowing down the candidates.
>
> This person, btw, had 10+ years of experience, starting out as a cable
> installer, and was a vp at the time working for a major bank/brokerage
> (csfb). He didn't have a single certification and found people who had
> the
> audacity to call themselves experts (the e in ccie) totally unimpressive
> and
> somewhat pretentious after one of them couldn't tell him what the
> default
> enable password for Catalyst 6500's was.
>
> - Jan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Larson" <clarson52@comcast.net>
>
>
> > My VistaPrint Electronic Business CardI just thought I would throw out
> an
> > experience I had yesterday. It was very unnerving and I wonder if
> others
> have
> > had similiar experiences. I have been in networking for better then 12
> years
> > but only got CCIE certified in the last year. I have had lots of
> interviews
> > throughout my carreer, most have had a technical aspect but I never
> felt
> > uncomfortable in any of them until yesterday.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
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