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RE: Surviving job hunting (was: Hiring, but it's a secret?)
Subject:RE: Surviving job hunting (was: Hiring, but it's a secret?) From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:39:39 -0600
From: arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com
Subject: Surviving job hunting (was: Hiring, but it's a secret?)
[snip]
Sadly, no one has come up with a job matching algorithm akin to those
dating algorithms.... the ones that set you up with your ideal match
based upon values, goals, personality, etc. (Do those even work? LOL)
[snip]
Arroxane
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Actually, I did encountered a job matching algorithm of sorts long, long
ago. It was called SIGI Plus, and it was what recommended technical
writing as a career for me. It worked by having you choose what was most
important to you in a career. I had to tweak my answers a few times,
however, because the first time, it told me I should be a librarian,
which was the job I was being fired from. Then it told me there was
absolutely nothing suited to me.
Where I encountered SIGI Plus was at Florida Atlantic University, where
I *was* working as a librarian.
To digress for a moment and answer your second question, I have tried
those "ideal match" things, and they don't work too well. The problem is
that, even though you can see logically how you *should* be compatible
with a certain person, people usually tend to make those kinds of
decisions based on purely subjective criteria.
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