Most hiring managers will blame the Monster.com's and CareerBuilder.com's for this one. In the past 10-15 years, HR managers have transitioned from not enough applicants to 1000 applicants per open position. How do you wade through the garbage?
The answer becomes keyword searches and exact qualifications.
There was an article in WSJ about the "Engineering Crisis" being a myth, leading to the above conclusion. They don't want an "operations manager". They want an operations manager with at least 8 years of management experience, with at least 10 direct reports, knowledge of CATIA, able to program Rockwell 5000 PLC, and has previous sales experience. There's a "crisis" because out of 1500 applicants, no one had that exact skill set.
I buy probably about 3 albums a month now from iTunes, and rarely buy single songs, because the whole album is pretty good, and you get a better deal. Then again, I'm not buying the super-hit music that we are all lamenting.
I quit listening to mainstream music, and I know drive around listening to independent radio. As I hear about new artists, I sometimes get their whole album. Of the dozen or so albums I've purchased, I would say that there's only one where I wish I would have just bought the one song I liked.
It's a gamble, and it's paid off more often than not.
... and it finally looks like my anecdotal knowledge has been confirmed.
After teaching programming for 5 years to college freshmen, I have always believed that good programmers could solve the problem on paper first. Students should work through the problem first. Then the student should realize that a program would have a much easier time of this repetitive solution. I always taught that you never write a program for something that you plan on only doing once.
I also agree with other posters that the computer lessens the abilities of the writer. To this day, I still have difficulty proofreading the computer screen. I do much better when I can print out and read a document.
Computers are a tool.
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Most hiring managers will blame the Monster.com's and CareerBuilder.com's for this one. In the past 10-15 years, HR managers have transitioned from not enough applicants to 1000 applicants per open position. How do you wade through the garbage? The answer becomes keyword searches and exact qualifications. There was an article in WSJ about the "Engineering Crisis" being a myth, leading to the above conclusion. They don't want an "operations manager". They want an operations manager with at least 8 years of management experience, with at least 10 direct reports, knowledge of CATIA, able to program Rockwell 5000 PLC, and has previous sales experience. There's a "crisis" because out of 1500 applicants, no one had that exact skill set.
I buy probably about 3 albums a month now from iTunes, and rarely buy single songs, because the whole album is pretty good, and you get a better deal. Then again, I'm not buying the super-hit music that we are all lamenting.
I quit listening to mainstream music, and I know drive around listening to independent radio. As I hear about new artists, I sometimes get their whole album. Of the dozen or so albums I've purchased, I would say that there's only one where I wish I would have just bought the one song I liked.
It's a gamble, and it's paid off more often than not.
... and it finally looks like my anecdotal knowledge has been confirmed. After teaching programming for 5 years to college freshmen, I have always believed that good programmers could solve the problem on paper first. Students should work through the problem first. Then the student should realize that a program would have a much easier time of this repetitive solution. I always taught that you never write a program for something that you plan on only doing once. I also agree with other posters that the computer lessens the abilities of the writer. To this day, I still have difficulty proofreading the computer screen. I do much better when I can print out and read a document. Computers are a tool.