Re: job screening question

[jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>]

Pascal's wager.. almost :)



On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 7:25 PM,  <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:07:51 -0700, goemon () anime net said:
>
> > This is what baffles me. People keep putting stuff on their resume that
> > they simply don't know anything about. TCP/IP expert, yet they don't know
> > SYN/SYNACK/ACK or subnetting. HTTP expert but they don't know what a 200
> > response is.
>
> The Friday afternoon cynic in me says it's because it's a move with positive
> paybacks.  There's 3 basic possibilities:
>
> 1) You send the puffed resume to a company with clue, it gets recognized
> as puffed, and you don't get the job.  Zero loss, you weren't going to get
> that job anyhow.
>
> 2) You send a boring unpuffed resume to a company sans clue.  They recognize it
> as boring because there's only 3 buzzwords on 2 pages, and you don't get the
> job.  Loss.
>
> 3) You send a puffed resume, and the guy doing the hiring doesn't know what
> the 3-packet mating call of the Internet is *either*.  Win.