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RE: RE: Re: How do hiring companies view TW resumes?
Subject:RE: RE: Re: How do hiring companies view TW resumes? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 2 Apr 2010 00:18:58 +0000
If a candidate turned out to be capable of documenting heavy equipment accurately without actually being there, that would indeed be highly qualified. I don't know if I'd call such a candidate "overqualified," but I'd definitely be willing to pay to fly him in for an interview. :)
Gene Kim-Eng
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On 4/2/2010 01:12 AM Technical Writing Plus wrote:
Earlier in this thread the OP said something about how it seemed that the
hiree was overqualified perhaps but that the boss wanted him anyway. This
New York Times Online article describes this 'overqualified' situation
pretty well it sseems.
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