Feb 22 2007

Simple CV Spam Filter: if (certified) move(”junk”)

Published by gojko under articles

Three more guys walked through the door yesterday. The first proudly wore a Microsoft lapel pin. ‘This is something new‘, I thought, ‘maybe we’ll get lucky this time‘. Two hours later, I said to my colleagues: ‘I can’t do this any more… we are just wasting time‘.

We want to hire a few more people, and some new agency is flooding us with Microsoft certified contractors. We are not looking specifically for certifications, but somehow nine out of ten cats show off with MCSD.NET. A couple of them attached MCSD.NET to their name, in the first line of the CV, as if it was their biggest achievement to date. After the interviews, that thought seems very close to the truth. Continue Reading »

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