On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:39:19 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Chambers wrote:
> 
>> Hey, congrats on hearing back!  Did he give you any useful advice?
> 
> Not really, no. Just the standard "unfortunately you have not been
> selected. Thank you for your continued interest in our company and we
> wish you every success in your future endevours" or something.

Well, don't be discouraged by it - not everyone's going to hire you.

After writing my first book, I interviewed for a position at Iomega.  
Even gave them a copy of the book, and blew away the technical interview.

They still didn't ask me back; I didn't have the right letters after my 
name; I held no certifications at all at the time, and they wanted to see 
that.  At the time I was one of about 35 people answering questions on 
CompuServe for Novell, which ought to have been enough.  Getting the cert 
wasn't easy - but not terribly difficult either, whereas being invited to 
that rather elite group was on a peer recommendation basis, and they/we 
were VERY hard to impress.

Unfortunately for Iomega, my experience counted little for anything 
compared to the letters after my name.  <shrug>  Their loss.

Jim

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