Re: an automated interview?!?

From: Dragon (NoSpam_Baadil_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:34:51 -0800

Lots of companies now try to reduce the number of resume they have to look
at. Pretty much anyone can copy a resume to match the requirement. But when
you have to answer a field related question, you will have to type the
answer in your own words. I would treat this question just like if I were to
answer this in a live interview. Resumes do not answer everything. Answer to
your question should be descriptive but not too long or too short. The
answer to your question you mentioned in your post should include your real
experience and may be something you accomplished using the servers tools
etc.

Answering with 'See Resume' should simply kick your application out of the
system.

"Vigo Breadcrumbs" <vigo@breadcrumbbs.com> wrote in message
news:XYWac.390773$jH.5498144@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> Yesterday, when cruising the on-line edition of the local newspaper, I
> get a little good news in that there's a new listing for a systems
> administrator position with a large and successful real estate
> developer. Perusing the qualifications, I find I match quite well, and
> there's nothing left-field like "must speak Urdu" or "left-handed
> Mohican proctologists preferred." The qualifications are a little
> stiffly worded, like "comfortable with server environment and running
> server-based administration tools," but they're nothing for which I
> can't offer decidedly nontrivial experience.
>
> I click the "apply now" link, expecting to get the usual blind e-mail
> with the really long cryptic subject. Instead, I get...nothing. It
> seems my RoadRunner service has chosen that instant to go offline. No
> matter. I take advantage of the delay to compose a truly bravaura cover
> letter, a masterwork of boldness, conciseness, completeness, and a
> pitch-perfect presentation of how my skills can benefit this company. I
> dunno what was in the water yesterday, but I was quite impressed at my
> own performance.
>
> As I was putting a last few finishing touches on my resume, I see the
> link light come on that tells me I'm back on line. I click the "apply
> now" link, and I get...something I've never quite seen before. It's
> obviously a non-email page for submitting resumes, but in addition to
> the name-and-address fields and place for pasting resume text, it's got
> a section called "Questionnaire." For a half dozen of the stiffly-
> worded qualifications, it's got text boxes wherein one is supposed to
> describe one's experience viz. the given item, e.g. "DESCRIBE YOUR
> EXPERIENCE IN THE SERVER ENVIRONMENT AND RUNNING SERVER-BASED
> ADMINISTRATION TOOLS."
>
> What in the hell is this? These sound like interview questions. Is
> this some kind of lazy-HR head game? The text boxes have no size
> limits, but in exactly how much detail is one supposed to answer these?
> If they are interview, or pre-interview, questions, one might suppose at
> some length, yet common sense suggests being brief at this early stage
> of the process. Seems to me like a lose-lose proposition.
>
> Anyone else seen an...application...like this, and how did you handle
> it?

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