[PLUG] Hire the Best

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Carla Schroder wrote:

> Here's some real food for thought: where do all these magically experienced,
> skilled people come from? This bullshit of abusing 'permatemps', H1B workers,
> and other dodges to avoid mentoring and training real honest-to-gosh
> employees is very old and very wrong. Or perhaps there is a secret foundry
> where these top-flight people are produced?
[snip]

Yes, there is a secret foundry of sorts, it's called a word processor, all
I have to do is type in the following lines:

   Skills:  12 years Java/J2EE experience
            27 years MC68000 assembly

and magically I am an expert! :-)  Of course the fact that neither of
these technologies have been around for the length of time given goes
right past the hiring managers, and what's worse, often the engineering
managers miss it to.

This is why so many of the companies that use permatemps and H1B at
extremely low rates either fold or get all their money from government
contracts (the only organization I know that pays whether or not you
deliver the goods), people who are willing to work that cheap often don't
have any experience with many of the skills listed on their resumes (HTML
and Javascript skills certainly can't be what is often claimed given how
broken most web sites are).  Reports that I have seen over the last few
years indicate that resume fraud is massive these days because no one
bothers to check anything.  I guess I shouldn't be surprized, I've been
doing contract work for 14 years, and despite the fact that many companies
I have worked for require references, not once in the last 12 years has
anyone actually contacted one of my references.

Anyone need a consultant with 20 years of Linux kernel experience? :-)

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