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[BigLee Haslup <biglee AT haslups.com>]

In an expanding economy, recruiting is all about aptitude.  Candidates with 
experience are viewed with suspicion: if the guy is as good as he claims 
why did his previous company allow him to leave?  In a contracting economy 
on the other hand, experience is the key.  Companies know that the really 
the topnotch people are out there -- the ones who, in the good old days, 
they would have loved to lure away from their now-bankrupt competitors but 
couldn't afford them.  The high-tech depression represents a fire sale on 
top-calibre, known commodities.  Why wouldn't companies snatch them up if 
they are lucky enough to be able to hire?

For those of us who have generic skills that we hoped would be valued in a 
number of industries this is frustrating.  It would be comforting to think 
that the insistence on specific experience is irrational, but it isn't.

At 05:08 PM 7/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Referring to that previous recruiting e-mail, can anyone out there
> enlighten me as to why they would require you to have previous healthcare
> experience?  I mean, here I sit with a PhD, I know more about security and
> privacy than probably anyone in the healthcare field, and could do a great
> job as a sys. admin., software engineer, or whatever else they could
> possibly need, and yet I won't even get a look because of "no previous
> healthcare experience."  Whatever.
>
> The thing I'm really tired of is HR people who know nothing about IT
> and disqualify you because you don't how to use <fill in the blank>
> software package, as if it would be difficult for anyone with a decent
> background to figure out in about ten minutes.
>
>
> Ben Brunk
>
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