atw: Re: Security clearance (and ellipses!)
- From: "Howard Silcock" <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:44:10 +1100
I was interested to read Jill Nicholson's post about the prohibition on
recruitment agencies specifying that a security clearance is a condition
of appointment for a position.
This seems to be one of those cases where the 'victory' for the STC must
surely be pyrrhic. If a company needs someone with a clearance but can't
wait months to put someone through the vetting process, what will they
do? Presumably find some way around the regulation, if they really
aren't allowed to include the clearance as a requirement. So that means
the job ads will contain vaguer and vaguer requirements - or maybe even
more spurious requirements - and will waste the applicants' time all the
more.
I don't want to appear too cynical - if someone can see it from a more
positive viewpoint, I'm more than willing to look from there too!
Howard
PS I've also just been catching up on a backlog of emails to this list
and can't resist adding a pedantic comment to the thread about ellipses,
as people seem to be confused about the spelling and usage of this term
(or was 'an elipses' just a typo?) - quite apart from the undoubtedly
important question of how they're used on menus. The three dots are
called AN ELLIPSIS and the plural is ELLIPSES (spelt the same as
geometrical ellipses, but pronoounced 'ellipSEEZ'). Actually, as far as
I can see, this usage comes from printing and must ultimately be derived
from the grammatical term used to describe an omission of a word or
words that can be inferred from the context - e.g. saying 'I don't
really like my boss - I just pretend to' (instead of 'I just pretend to
*like him*').
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Howard L. Silcock
Advanced Computation & Modelling Program
Mathematical Sciences Institute
Australian National University
howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxxx
Ph 6125 0023 Fax 6125 5549
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