Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : CBFalconer
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 06:14 pm

Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 
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> 
> With that thought in mind, if I were designing an application form,
> I would not bother to put an age field on there, or even a DOB
> field, despite my earlier point about it being a useful indicator.
> And that's because I wouldn't bother putting a former employer
> section or a qualification section on the form. Instead, I'd put in
> an aptitude test.
> 
> Anyone who rates themselves so highly that they feel insulted by
> being asked to do an aptitude test... need not apply.

Wherever such tests appear I usually enjoy them.  But some people
feel insulted.

Forty (mumble) years ago I arrived for a job interview at one
firm.  I was mistaken for somebody else (I was somewhat thinner and
less gray than now) and the personnel director first put me in a
room with what amounted to an IQ test.  I considered it great sport
and dumped the result on her in under the requisite time.  

After a while she came back being extremely apologetic over having
put me through this ordeal.

I took the job, and met my wife there (she died last year).  Now I
am leaving the area to live near one of my children.  It is not
easy clearing out a home of 40 years especially when one has been
devoted to compulsive retention of clutter.

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