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- From: bienk@triceratops.erg.sri.com (Marie Bienkowski)
- Subject: Re: AI Winter Refugees
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.201921.9580@erg.sri.com>
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- Reply-To: bienk@triceratops.erg.sri.com (Marie Bienkowski)
- Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:19:21 GMT
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- Although I was unable to follow the entire thread of debate, I understand
- that there's been some discussion about the AI winter manifesting itself
- as a slowing down of hiring people for AI jobs. My impression is that, while
- there are certainly as many people graduating with AI degress, people who
- already have AI jobs are staying put because of the recession. Consequently,
- employers may not be advertising as much, since new graduates are hired via
- campus recruiters. This is what I've observed from resumes we've received.
- We get a lot from fresh-outs, almost none from people with 3-5 years
- experience.
- We also get a lot from people who I'd call thinkers, and not many from people
- who I'd call doers. And given the requirement to show results and show them
- soon, doers are what *we* need.
-
- I'd be interested in hearing from people who are job hunting in AI to
- see what kinds of qualifications are out there.
-
- Thanks,
- Marie B
- bienk@erg.sri.com
-