[Sigia-l] Job requiringmentos

[Andrew Boyd]

On 3/28/07, Will Parker <wparker at channelingdesign.com> wrote:
> My wife got a fun job alert today for a tech writer position at 'a
> Fortune 500 company'. Among the requirements:
>
> "Technical aspects of this position include extrating large amounts
> of data from various databases and data warehouses. Candidate's
> resumes must show that they they have experience acuiring and
> maniplating data."
>
> Is it just me, or has the minimum standard for hiring management
> personnel dropped precipitously in the past 10 years? I like to
> remind people that we are close relatives to the chimpanzee, but I
> try to draw the line at working under one.

I think that this is a wonderful thing - some define opportunity in
consulting as the intersection between preparedness and opportunity,
but sometimes it is more like the intersection between chaos and money
- and the above quote illustrates that chaos is alive and well in that
company. Without client chaos we might have to turn to less palatable
forms of work, like road repair, chicken plucking, or politics. Long
live chaos! :)

PS: I'd be willing to bet that the job description contains something
about "attention to detail"!

Cheers, Andrew