Python Learning

[Larry Martell]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Rhodri James <rhodri at kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
> On 18/12/17 13:28, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>>
>> However, I have been doing quite a bit of hiring, quite successfully, I
>> might add. I am not prejudiced one way or another. Your résumé doesn't
>> count. Your education doesn't count. What you can do for the team
>> counts, and that is measured during the interview process.
>
>
> While I agree with most of what you say, I disagree with you here.  Your CV
> (résumé) does count, just not necessarily in the way most people expect.
>
> I haven't often been involved in hiring, but the few times I have we had
> more applicants than it was feasible to interview.  We used CVs as the only
> thing we had to filter with, looking for *interesting* people. Exactly what
> "interesting" meant was somewhat arbitrary; we put one person through to
> interview because she was a cellist, and that would have given us a complete
> string quartet (she didn't get the job, sadly).

Yes, I once chose to interview someone because he had on his resume
that he was an award winning duck decoy carver. He also did not get
the job.