[Cialug] Linux Job Posting

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Brandon Griffis wrote:
> IT job hunting is awful from both sides.  On one you have those asking for
> 10+ years professional experience with RHEL 64-bit (LOL worthy), and on the
> other you have people listing off every application they've ever loaded on
> their computer ONCE on their resumes.
> 

I always figure they post a bunch of impossible or conflicting skill 
sets, then list a wide salary range, so they can say you only match x% 
of the skills, so we'll only offer you x% (or less than x) of the top salary

> Just read an article the other day that claimed IT was the 2nd worst field
> for people putting outright lies on their resumes.
> 
> The worst?  Healthcare.
> 
> Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

yes, but turns out it was the hospital-acquired infection I got :)

-barry







> -B
> 
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:
>>> Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday September 24 2008 12:58, Morris Dovey wrote:
>>>>> Zachary Kotlarek wrote:
>>>>>> I didn't forget. I just assumed no one would admit to it. ;-)
>>>>> Ok - I have one in my shop. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> (And I'm running RH 5.2 on another machine there.)
>>>> All our RHEL 5 machines were just updated to 5.2 not so long ago.
>>>>
>>>> Or are you talking 5.2 before the Red Hat version restart?
>>> Ay-yup (You mean they're on a /second/ go-round?)
>> Red Hat *Enterprise* Linux is currently on version 5.2.  Fedora 10 is
>> nearing release, which probably would have been something like Red Hat
>> Linux 15 if they had released a version a year.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Ollie
>>
>> "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
>> I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
>> terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
>> them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
>> unfairness of the universe."
>>
>>        -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"
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