Hi, Well, sorry to join this debate in the middle, but ... I live in Finland and we use non-Western standards, I assume. I've never been any kind of manager or HR person. But, being a grad-student in a quite a big polytechnic and having a nice SWD position and thus, consulting number of students on a daily basis about employment and everything like that (well, they ask - me answers), I believe I can voice my opinion in this discussion ... 1. I totally agree with Vitaliy about % of badly written resumes. Most of our students want to have any kind of job what so ever in IT, no matter what it includes, so they just submit their CVs to every possible company and for every position available, without even bothering to change it. Which is a _BIG_ mistake number 1! In quite a few cases they don't even bother to fine-tune the cover letter. So, I assume that it is really nice from HR point of view to receive the letter asking to consider the application for SWD position, even though company is developing analog electronics. (seen exactly that kind of case!!! Guy was blaming the company for not calling him ... Well, no surprise ... ) 2. If invited to interview, don't expect that most of technical questions really do have technical matter behind them. I've been on number of interviews and I can tell that sometimes (read: in most of big companies), the main asset is to be able to work in a team and according to company rules. So, this is checked always. As one of my coleagues said: "in school, you will never have any kind of course about our proprietary hardware, software, ways of working, etc ... just because, they are _proprietary_!" So, it is expected that there will be some "on the job training" involved. So, having said above, I believe that 99% of applicants just don't get the idea and, obviosly, they don't get a position. There are more reasons, obviously, however, failing to accept 2 above mentioned facts means 100% failure in getting a position in a big company. BR, Aleksandr. 2009/4/26 Peter : > Vitaliy maksimov.org> writes: >> > In any case, non-Western management style still has a long way to go to >> > match >> > the Western managerial teams on the green turf and in spending power. >> >> It sounds like you haven't been exposed to non-Western management styles, >> comrade. Where are you from, and where have you been? > > I have been, and regret that the revolution that ended that came too late and > hanged too few to send out the right message to the survivors, figuratively > speaking. And plase don't call me comrade, I never was one, and that's a really > bad thing to call one where I come from. Still have problems with that in the > family. > > My sarcasm applies due to what I know, it was not meant to be offending. > Consider it procrastination. I am not such a sour-puss usually. > > The non-Western managerial teams spend their spoils in other ways than golfing, > although they are working on catching up there too. I even learned how to play > mini-golf ages ago, too. Can't stand the real thing though, the sun would boil > me alive. Heh. > > Peter > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist