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January 27, 2005
Hiring the top 1%
Joel makes some interesting points about hiring the best. At some point we are going to need to hire someone. I am both looking forward and really dreading that day.
In fact, one thing I have noticed is that the people who I consider to be good software developers barely ever apply for jobs at all.
On the other hand there are people out there who appear to be applying to every job on Monster.com.
I think the whole monster.com and job fair thing is way over rated. I used to go to all the job fairs Purdue offered. It just seemed pointless so I quit going. How can they possibly learn anything about me in 2 minutes? Every job I've had except one (technology related or not, full time or part time) I've gotten through a personal referall. The one job I wasn't referred for wasn't through a job board or job fair either. The company didn't even have any open positions. I needed to live in Hailey, ID for a summer so I emailed my resume to every company remotely related to information technology (trust me, it didn't take that long). Two got back to me, one offered me a full time position which unfortunetly I couldn't take and the other agreed to take me on because I agreed to work for an insanely low wage and do pretty much whatever they wanted (sys admin, HTML, learn PL/SQL, etc).
My resume is so out of date it probably hasn't been updated since I applied for that job in 2001. Maybe I started my own company just so I wouldn't have to update my resume. Hmm, there's worse reasons to start a company.
I hear this from almost every software company. "We hire the top 1% or less," they all say.Could they all be hiring the top 1%? Where are all the other 99%? General Motors?
I had to laugh extra hard at this one because Jessica's uncle works for EDS which does most of the IT work for GM.
Posted by mikel at January 27, 2005 05:15 PM
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