McKaig's "Open Letter to Employers"
I confess that I've read this letter on Angie McKaig's site before. But why not take a minute to sound off on it?
The job ad she writes about it is why Nick Corcadilos encourages us to take our job destiny in our own hands. Neither headhunters nor human resources people know what the h*ll they are doing, when it comes to identifying technical skill. Only those of us who possess these skills can accurately judge which can be applied to what job. Unfortunately, it's the clueless people who have responsibility for making the placements. I say this is unfortunate because there is plenty for them to do without having to embarrass themselves by creating job ads that require five years of experience in some software program that didn't exist three years ago. (I've seen this, more than once.)And double unfortunately, no "open letter" to the people who write these ads will change their behavior. They do not see themselves in the examples; they don't consider the possibility that our complaints are aimed at them.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.I'm not saying McKaig is teaching pigs to sing. I am saying she wrote the article more to vent her own spleen than to serve the rest of humanity. Nothing wrong with that. :-)
Piggy courtesy of Animal Vet Center.
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