Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

Where I work, there was a posting for a job: Secretarial position,
experiance in dBaseIV, WordPerfect, and DOS. Must have a degree.
Bill Gates would not even be permitted to apply for this job ! (it was actually a secretarial job for _very_ senior management)

Brian Stoler <brian_at_feith.com> wrote:

>Bill Wendling wrote:
>>
>> Alberto Maurizio Chavan inexplicably wrote:
>>
>> } Education:
>> } University degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent.
>>
>> I always love it when people ask for such and such degree in CS. Didn't
>> one of the people who started up Apple not have a degree in CS until
>> long after the company get started? :) And look at The Gates!
 

>Agreed. I'm a 16-year old junior in high school (employed by an ISV for
>2.5 years) and it bugs me that people assume that one must have a
>college degree to be a good job candidate. I'd hope that if I were
>looking for a job this would not hinder me. Let the prospective
>employee's ability speak for itself.
 

>- Brian Stoler
>- brian_at_feith.com
Received on Sat Feb 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CET