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Re: Case study for interviewing Oracle DBA

From: rachel carmichael <wisernet100_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:45:17 -0500
Message-ID: <2e71187305030304457c5725d1@mail.gmail.com>


Unfortunately, to avoid the overquoting, I'm gonna have to snip out amost everything... here goes

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:55:21 -0800, Joel Garry <joelgarry_at_anabolicinc.com> wrote:
> rachel carmichael wrote:
>

> The criteria are important in the sense of "you must meet them to get
> your foot in the door," but not in the sense of "do they make sense."
> I've seen some criteria that are just plain wrong. Criteria that reject
> those who would do best in the job are bad criteria. That is why it is
> best to simply skip the HR department and go directly to the hiring
> manager. That's what networking is all about. That rare beast, "good
> headhunters" (as opposed to order clerks) do that too.
>

 Company mergers led to my being in a position of "you will be laid off some time in the near future". While talking with a friend of mine about it (he'd gone through the same thing with me at my prior company), he decided that recruiting me would be a good thing for his current company. Okay, fair enough, we skipped the HR initial crap, saved the company money (no recruiter's fees). EXCEPT, HR still has to be in the process at some point, and now they are annoyed with both me and my friend because "we did this backwards". Do I start the interview with HR at a disadvantage? You bet. Will it hurt me? Still to be determined, we are still in the "trying to find a date that everyone can manage for the interview" stage.

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