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If your company was looking for someone who can "Find his way through
orphaned API code.", then you shouldn't have hired people who "claims to
have saved the company thousands of dollars on docs".
If someone has a question about whether or not the interviewee is making
false claims on their resume, then that is what the interview is for. Ask
the person where they got their cost-saving numbers from.
If you're not getting interviews, then you should improve your resume. There
are tons of books out there that will help you set your resume apart from
the hundreds that will pass through an HR reps desk. In the case of e-HR
reps, the numbers could be in the thousands.
Companies want to hire people who can do the job, but are also
cost-concious.
-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-techwr-l-146657 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-146657 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Peter
Neilson
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 15:52:01 -0400, Kevin <mlist -at- ca -dot- safenet-inc -dot- com>
wrote, in part:
> This business of quantizing savings/profits due to documentation
> is kinda nebulous from where I sit. I may, though, just be
> looking at it from the wrong perspective. Too many trees --
> can't see forest. :-)
Right, but it's still the case that they'll interview the guy who
claims to have saved the company thousands of dollars on docs
instead of the guy who can find his way through orphaned API code.
One place where I worked we actually HIRED two of those losers.
Neither one cranked out as much as one doc revision! And right now
their clones are getting interviewed and hired instead of me at
the few remaining places around here. Am I whining too much?
Should I be more creative on my resume?
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