Re: Contract Rates & CISSP or not

[Harry Tabak <htabak_fw () quadtelecom com>]

Crispin Cowan wrote:
<snip>
> Personally, I use CISSP as a filter for who *not* to hire, as in "if
> they have a CISSP, I don't hire them". Rationalle: we do advanced R&D,
> so I'm shopping for brilliance, not competence & willingness to do
> drugery with dilligence. The CISSP (hopefully :-) assures a minimum
> level of competence, but IMHO the social filter of those who seek such
> certification makes them unlikely to be a brilliant innovater.
<snip>
> --

But would the resume of someone with "brilliance" get past the HR
gatekeeper without the magic keywords of "CISSP" or "PhD"?  Assuming
that you were with an organization that was sufficiently large to
require an HR Dept, and assuming that you were too busy to personally
screen a few hundred resumes.

Harry Tabak
CC&BW
Quad Telecom, Inc.
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