I've got nothing... I can't even come up with a smart ass remark...
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It's been a long time since I have made an update, but I feel compelled to stop being lazy about updating my blog and share the following with all of you. My friend Harry blogged quite an interesting piece yesterday, and I thought it deserved some attention. Oh, and speaking of Harry, I just realized I'm two steps from Kevin Bacon on LinkedIn through Harry... That really made me laugh, because when Harry and I worked together we would play the Kevin Bacon game. And speaking of LinkedIn, I also found I'm two steps from Barack Obama and three steps from John McCain too... I guess I inadvertently know a lot of interesting people.
So this is why it's hard to do phone screens today. What can you ask when all of the answers are out there already? Having all of these questions available to candidates makes finding someone with a clue more difficult. When you're doing the initial phone screen the candidate has probably been memorizing the answers to the basics, and you can't figure out if he/she's a superstar or not until he/she shows up for a face to face interview.
Here are some questions I like to use to help with this problem:
If you've ever worked in IT in any form you will appreciate the following link: The website is down: Sales guy vs. Web dude
I have to give my man arae a shout out for finding that gem. Oh and while I'm pimping people's sites, go visit my friend Morgan who just got a new puppy.
Last night I watched what is basically a horrible movie about Nikola Tesla. It's a VHS transfer to DVD that is so horrible it even rewinds for 30 seconds during the movie, then continues to play. However, I loved it. Here's why. When watching the movie, I quickly remembered all of the things that Nikola invented and worked on.
A bunch of you wanted to comment on posts or create content, so I've gone ahead and re-enabled the user login feature. Originally I had it turned off so I didn't have to deal with spam bots and content/comment moderation. But I figured what the hell I'll try my hand at 'retard wrangling' if necessary.
Oh, I created a new poll to get your opinion on that too... on the bottom right hand side.