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- From: bpwebb@direct.ca (Bradley Parker Webb)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 06:40:00 GMT
- Organization: Internet Direct
- Message-ID: <4g3t52$7p4@aphex.direct.ca>
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- 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@feith.com> wrote:
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- >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@feith.com
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