4 Oct
2011
4 Oct
'11
4:24 p.m.
You really think not using outlook makes me fit the asshole category!
I certainly don't :-)....
Actually this raises an intereting point. Many of these programs are
advertised as 'user-friendly', which would seme to imply easy to learn
and use.
I think it's reasonable to assume that anybody who is capable of
repairing a vitage computer has some knowledge of how to use computers,
even if not the specific software that they will have to use in said
organisation. I therefore feel that while the software used should be
mentioned (some people have an almost religious objection to certain
programs...), knowledge of it should be a requiremrnt.
Of course if the software is so hard to learn that such a person can't
pick it up in an afternoon (at most) then perhaps the 'user-friendly'
comment is misleadign advertising...
But there's a reason we all put "BS required" in those ads, and it is
because it's a filter. It's not a have/not have filter. It's an
asshole/not asshole filter.
This proves the job seekers view of HR, The complexity of a machines
Yep
repair here is required as a primary skill, some thing
as simple as
mail program can be learned or taught, it is far to trivial to be
mentioned in any job specification.
Exactly.
If I was going to emply an electronic designer I would not state as a
requirement 'msut know how to use a Tektronix TDS... digital storage
'scope' I would require that the candidate could use common test
instruments to analyse circuit operation (and woul state that just in
case some people beleive that electorinc design is solely done on a CAD
workstation...) but that would be it. Learing to use the instrumetns
avaialbve takes an afternoon for any competent electroncis person.
And no, I don't know how to use Outlook or Word or... But having
sent/received e-mail for the last 25 years, having writtne several quite
long docuemants on other text processing systems i am darn sure I could
use said programs after reading the manuals.
-tony