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RE: Experience = skill? (was various other threads)
Subject:RE: Experience = skill? (was various other threads) From:Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- NILS -dot- COM> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:38:53 -0700
Depends on which 70%
Maggie Secara
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Subject: Re: Experience = skill? (was various other threads)
Dee Dee Oakey wrote:
>I graduated with my master's in technical & professional communicI know
that many of the jobs I would be interested in requires more experience than
I have now.
Something that might be worth repeating: ads are a wish list. You rarely
need to have all the requirements listed. According to head-hunters, if
you have 70% of the requirements listed, you have a good chance at the job.
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