From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 18:03:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCD510656D6 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy1.bluehost.com [IPv6:2605:dc00:100:2::a1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29D8A8FC1D for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1235 invoked by uid 0); 27 Apr 2012 18:03:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by oproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2012 18:03:44 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=apotheon.com; s=default; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=aG+S742eomQ79zEFa5oRiGENZsbzzqkUZpili+Gy01A=; b=AsTdp/1y16/c2SZbvHYu7bpT9uPLZF7Nd7WNuMAcWXro2S8ghF3uJLH8U7DC+4T4dz7J6+kNP/ZOIzRfbPJZOUKT4569c9XTDQbpTIl1qm5EZdQiCrJs2NQ42XYdVM2n; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=localhost) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SNpWB-0004z1-L6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:03:43 -0600 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:03:43 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <20120427180343.GA8943@hemlock.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD References: <20120424175026.GD1303@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <201204241833.q3OIXwTR013401@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120424190227.GA1773@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120425053133.e920b091.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120425064507.GA4673@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20120425085555.36f91b3a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120426215256.GA30059@hemlock.hydra> <20120426184306.783f9b4b@scorpio> <20120427163224.GA29149@hemlock.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20120427163224.GA29149@hemlock.hydra> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.com} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with perrin@apotheon.com} Subject: Re: editor that understands CTRL/B, CTRL/I, CTRL/U X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:03:45 -0000 On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:32:24AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43:06PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:52:56 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: > > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:45:53PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > >> > > >> Generic skills aren't recognized because they're hard to judge and > > >> test for. People want quantifiable, objective things to weed out > > >> applicants. This is also why credit scoring has become so popular -- > > >> sure, someone's credit score may not tell whether they'd be a good > > >> employee or not, but it's a convenient, objective way to throw out a > > >> bunch of resumes. > > > > > >Indeed -- and the employer who bucks this trend does him/her self a > > >huge service, because large numbers of very skilled and/or talented > > >people are being rejected on entirely arbitrary criteria that have > > >little or no correlation to their ability to do the job. People who > > >use such critera are forcing themselves to compete with everyone else > > >in the industry using the same criteria, leaving a glut of job > > >candidates who would be great at the job waiting for someone else to > > >give them a chance. > > > > Wouldn't it be far easier for this "glut of job applicants" to either > > become proficient in the skills stated in the job description for which > > they are applying or do what everyone else does; i.e. lie on their > > résumé. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to > > the mountain. > > 1. Pretty much every employer has a slightly different list of keywords. > I guess you think all these job candidates should learn every skill in > the world. > > 2. Lying is bad. Go fall in a hole, now. I appear to have forgotten about point 3. 3. This was about employers going to the mountain, by the way, so your point is null and void in any case. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]