Well, I've always assumed that silicon valley in the Bay Area (SF) was more liberal than many other places, especially after having worked at several startups as well as fortune 100 companies (pre.com). But recently I just dropped into another startup and submitted several jobs to Craigs list... I was suprised (maybe not too much) to get literally hundreds of responses for the few jobs I posted in less than 48 hours. My comments here? I initially threw out resumes that I either couldn't read or that had too much in them that my eyes watered after 30 seconds. Once past that I managed to get down to 5-8 people per position to interview.
After thinking of the company I'm with, the investors we have (half from Asia) and what its going to take to get to the next stage, I started mentally sorting the candidates based on experiance as well as appearance and personality.
Sad as it may seem, I really did start worrying about the few people that really stood out. They were just as smart as a couple others (I did get down to a few comparisons) but in most cases lost out slightly due to unprofessional appearance (showing up to an interview in either a TShirt or a shirt with lots of YELLING on it isn't a good start).
What suprised me is that I started leaning to some of the people who were (I think) in their 50's because they came across not only more professional, but seems to really be interested in doing the work.
Just to settle my mind on the "younger/faster" opinion, I gave everyone the same "test" coming in to the office (everyone was told that they get 60 minutes for a 5 question test) just to see how everyone stacked up. I'm typically more interested in people that "think" through a problem than who show how much of a manual they memorized. Everyone had Firefox and google available just like real life...
So everyone was just about equal... with a few who were totally in the buzzword resume but failed in real life.
So what ended up happening? Still went for the more professional people. Easier to explain or introduce to Japanese or Korean investors people that done offend:-)
Sorry! Its the desire to succeed that made me do it...
Although GPS navication is supposed to be WAAS enabled for accuracy, I wonder how the change will affect others that use their GPSs for/G approaches to airports that do not have RAIM? 100M inaccuracy can be devistation on an approach in IFR conditions.
I personally have a Garmin 295 that I use however not for IFR approaches other than practice (in VFR conditions) just to fly the approach plates. Will this generate a NOTAM on the/G users out there or does the current system have the ability to disregard and use some sort of alternate navigation system?
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Well, I've always assumed that silicon valley in the Bay Area (SF) was more liberal than many other places, especially after having worked at several startups as well as fortune 100 companies (pre .com). But recently I just dropped into another startup and submitted several jobs to Craigs list... I was suprised (maybe not too much) to get literally hundreds of responses for the few jobs I posted in less than 48 hours. My comments here? I initially threw out resumes that I either couldn't read or that had too much in them that my eyes watered after 30 seconds. Once past that I managed to get down to 5-8 people per position to interview.
After thinking of the company I'm with, the investors we have (half from Asia) and what its going to take to get to the next stage, I started mentally sorting the candidates based on experiance as well as appearance and personality.
Sad as it may seem, I really did start worrying about the few people that really stood out. They were just as smart as a couple others (I did get down to a few comparisons) but in most cases lost out slightly due to unprofessional appearance (showing up to an interview in either a TShirt or a shirt with lots of YELLING on it isn't a good start).
What suprised me is that I started leaning to some of the people who were (I think) in their 50's because they came across not only more professional, but seems to really be interested in doing the work.
Just to settle my mind on the "younger/faster" opinion, I gave everyone the same "test" coming in to the office (everyone was told that they get 60 minutes for a 5 question test) just to see how everyone stacked up. I'm typically more interested in people that "think" through a problem than who show how much of a manual they memorized. Everyone had Firefox and google available just like real life...
So everyone was just about equal... with a few who were totally in the buzzword resume but failed in real life.
So what ended up happening? Still went for the more professional people. Easier to explain or introduce to Japanese or Korean investors people that done offend :-)
Sorry! Its the desire to succeed that made me do it...
Although GPS navication is supposed to be WAAS enabled for accuracy, I wonder how the change will affect others that use their GPSs for /G approaches to airports that do not have RAIM? 100M inaccuracy can be devistation on an approach in IFR conditions.
I personally have a Garmin 295 that I use however not for IFR approaches other than practice (in VFR conditions) just to fly the approach plates. Will this generate a NOTAM on the /G users out there or does the current system have the ability to disregard and use some sort of alternate navigation system?