Re: Seek Data Warehouse Design skill
- From: Mogens Nørgaard <mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:06:36 +0200
I've done a good deal of hiring and interview'ing over the years. For
instance, when I started up Premium Services here, we went from zero to
32 people in less than a year. Talk about having interviews. I've come
to the conclusion that you can be misled no matter what you try.
The only objective criteria I have found so far is how the interviewee
looks.
All other things, such as exams, references from his/her former
collegues, CV's, documents of all sorts, behaviour during the interview,
ability to follow-up afterwards, and, yes, all the silly HR maneouvres
you can possibly think of, can and will be misleading in some way.
Don't let yourself be fooled: Go for the good-looking ones. Do not ever
accept a CV without a good photo included.
Now you know why I've hired people like Morten Egan, Peter Gram, Michael
Möller, and the likes. It's their looks.
Mogens
PS: I did of course attach pictures of all those beautiful men, but
Jared's attachment removal device works, unfortunately.
DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote:
> I gotta go with Mladen on this one. One of the most brilliant colleagues I
> have worked with whose abilities continually amazed me was seeking a job at
> the same time as I was. He was in a different country from his birth and I
> wasn't. Many people think that if you don't speak good English you must be
> dumb. Guess who got more job offers - him or me?
> You may think you can spot the hot-shots in an interview, but I think
> that just means you haven't hired very many people. Even an industry titan
> like Lee Iacoca admits that he was unable to truly separate out those with
> "fire in their belly" from those that just gave a good interview.
> Jared, since most of us are involved in hiring people and are all want to
> be hired, I hope you won't consider this too far off-topic.
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
>
> "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means
> doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case,
> the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."
> -- C.S. Lewis
>
>
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