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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: Sad Day for Liberty
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.023236.22533@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <1992Nov6.081944.2669@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov6.224701.6781@fid.morgan.com> <CARL.92Nov11132701@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:32:36 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <CARL.92Nov11132701@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM
- (Carl Heinzl) writes:
-
- >>To those who are going to say "This company hasn't hired and X's,
- >>therefore they must be discriminating. Why won't you allow that as
- >>proof?" I'll say "Show me one X who applied and was more qualified
- >>than candidates they did hire. The existence of such a person implies
- >>discrimination; if you can't find one, then tell me _precisely who_
- >>they discriminated against."
- >
- >I must beg to differ. I do not believe that this implies
- >discrimination, however I think that if this systematically happened
- >over a period of time to several people then something could be up.
- >
- >For example, I have interviewed people that have been extremely well
- >qualified (technically), more so than others, but that most people in
- >the company would have had an extremely hard time working with.
-
- Then they weren't qualified to do *the job*, they were qualified to do
- the technical part of it only.
-
- >Qualifications alone do not make someone appropriate for a position.
- >Attitude and personality go along with it. You cannot simply judge a
- >person by their resume (even if all the resumes are totally accurate
- >portrayals of their technical ability)!!!
-
- You're using a different definition of "qualified" than I am.
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
-