I've only worked with one good Recruiter team and they are so good they convinced me that recruiters can be not just good, but excellent, and I'll defend any such blanket statements lumping all recruiters together. It's hard for those doing the job to really summarize their day to day in a series of core tasks, and it's even harder for non-technical persons to even know what to ask the technical persons to build a proper posting. This gets even worse for general tech roles that are basically low level system troubleshooting positions. Maybe it's not true anymore but I seem to recall if you ask 10 people what DevOps is you'll get 12 different answers, all of them disagreeing. Hiring is really hard because in general it's difficult to describe the domain that most jobs encompass unless it already had a narrow focus. I have the same feeling about when someone lists Linux experience and mentioned Kali as their distro unless they're a security specialist usually it means they played with Kali in a college crash course/intro network security course, and only know a few specific applications + flags to get some result for a network pen test. If the role isnt oriented towards heavily doing office work, I'm not that interested in Office. It's not an immediate mark against, but I do end up with lower expectations on the tech I am interested in. Office is both an expectation on postings that don't actually know how to assess technical knowledge so the creator(s) of the postings just make up whatever is tough for them and also seems like it's a highly technical skill.Īt the same time for fairly highly technical roles I see persons frequently adding not just Office as a skill but each of the office apps without further detail.įor me when a candidate for more high level roles advertises their office skills, I see it as a negative usually. They select text with the mouse, which takes like two minutes in a long document, instead of 500ms when using CTRL+Shift + End/Home, or CTRL+A.Īnd let's not talk about composition. They can't navigate a paragraph or a line using home/end buttons. They are very surprised to learn you can type in italics directly using underscores. They don't know anything about ToC, or ToC formatting. They don't understand footnotes, type the footnote text in the text itself and wonder where it's gone after page reflow. They don't know that you can (and should) have accented capital letters in languages such as French, and that there's a specific option to set for that. They've never heard of non-breaking space. They use forced line breaks to adjust page breaks because they don't know about forced page breaks, or the "keep with next" paragraph setting. Most people don't use styles, or use them improperly, or modify every instance randomly. There is such a thing as proficiency in word processing.
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