Oh The Things I Learn
As you have noticed from the decrease in quality and quanity of ramblings around this old blog, my life has gotten interesting. Beyond the usual every day "manual processes" that I handle in the workplace, I also have the really sweet fencing gig, a tournament this weekend I may or may not have been expected to be in charge of, plus implimenting a now $188K software solution. Oh and be on a search committee for a new position at my work.
Long ago my mother beat into me that in every situation and every hardship, nothing is lost as long as I learn something. I am learning a whole heck of a lot of somethings in the position of this search committee. The job was posted to local and regional newspapers, monster.com, and a professional organization that caters to the sort of person that we are looking to hire. You would think that with the a half way decent job description you would get something that was more or less in the ballpark of the job.
For instance one of the things the job description mentions is that the applicant should have some experience in the education sector. One of the nimrods that replied made note of "six points" the job referenced, and for "education" listed that infact he was educated. Best I can tell after reading the job description our happless applier thought that the job had something to do with running the technical side of a telecommunications firm. This is after using the job description in complete sentences to describe why we should hire him. One would think that getting the idea of what the job was for so completely wrong was because it was some sort of monster.com mishap. Nope, the cover letter lists a regional newspaper as the source. At least he's educated, surely that will count somewhere...else.
In many instances very capable people have applied to the job, who if they worked here would be answering to the person we are actually hiring. I wonder if the job market is so bad right now that people are latching to one single word in the description and trying to use it as a life boat. Either way, no, as a matter of fact you aren't going to be paid even half of the sum you are suggesting. Thank you for playing, feel free to get a cup of coffee by the door on your way out. I have this incredible urge to contact these people personally to find out just what the heck they are thinking. (I will resist though. When I get fired it will be over something news worthy. 6 O'Clock news worthy!)
The lesson I am getting from all of this is if the job ask for something I am not, I need not apply. This might be good to know since I am talking about work on a blog under my real name I am sure I will be looking soon. Maybe I should list my blog on my resume from here on so people know before hand exactly what they are getting into. Wouldn't it be refreshing to get hired because of your blog rather than fired for it?
Know that everyone who makes my short list will be googled. Maybe they have a cool blog too.
