Python Learning

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 1:09 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.

This is NORMALLY going to be the case. How many hours does it take to
truly evaluate a candidate? You can't afford to interview a hundred
people only to find that ninety of them are hopelessly unqualified.
Somehow, you have to sift out the most likely candidates, and THEN you
actually meet with them.

But Marko is partly right too. Your CV/résumé isn't going to land you
the job, nor is your education. But they might land you the interview.
With the students I work with, there's a dedicated Careers Services
team that help them to polish their portfolio projects, because a
portfolio is *way* more indicative than a CV or a college degree; but
even then, the best portfolio in the world is only good enough to get
you as far as an interview.

> 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).

Heh. Pity. That would be fun.

ChrisA