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Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Count Spamula bites again
From: "Lex Jenkins" <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:14:44 GMT
Man, can I relate to that problem. Personnel/HR depts. cannot seem to cope with applicants who have a variety of experience in highly technical or specialized fields. If they managed baseball every team would have 9 designated hitters, 9 designated baserunners, but only one fielder because, after all, three seems a bit redundant, hmm?

Lex
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From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Count Spamula bites again
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 15:05:07 -0500

One of my problems was that my resume was a bit too unbelievable--but true.
I ended up really dumbing the thing down to IQ-75 to get people to take me
seriously.  Please don't get me started on Human Resource departments.  But
I will pass this one along--I got buried by the HR department while
department heads were screaming for people with my qualifications.  I
talked with one department head two days ago that stated that she was
pretty much denied access to me because I was "overqualified" for the
department and that they had earmarked me for another department which
ended up not hiring me.  Meanwhile the lenders were calling...

Now my boss and I are trying to get HR to get my title straight.  They put
me down as a design specialist instead of a data network
engineer/frame-relay manager.  At least they got the pay right.  :)  They
even issued new company-wide org-charts that had me down in the mushroom
zone.  But strangey enough, they promoted one of the design specialists to
data network engineer/frame-relay manager.  :/


Ken N.


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