1 Oct
2011
1 Oct
'11
8:17 p.m.
On 2011 Oct 1, at 10:51 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
Maybe, maybe not; depends on the how the company is organised.
Vulcan may have a lot of money behind it, but it is a company for
Allen's personal interests, supporting specialty interests and areas,
I'd hazard a guess the people - even in a presumed HR department - are
aware of that. It's not really Giant Faceless Corporation.
I wouldn't be surprised if all the resumes ended up on the desk of Rich
or Ian or someone similar.
(As an applicant) one might prepare for the worst, but one needn't
presume it.
Realistically,
I expect they are pretty flexible and are going to
be=20
looking at the overall person, their background, and competence.
Yes, I suspect that _engineers_ (or scientists) would be flexible, and
would realise that somebody who was happy writing mathematical programs
is not going to have much problem picking up Excel (say).
The problem is that the Resume' (CV, whatever you want to call it) is
not
going to get to the engineers. The HR department acts as a
preprocessor, and at least over here they will happilly filter out all
candidates who don't meet the strict list of criteria.