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|    Jas Hud to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic    |
|    09 May 22 06:54:59    |
      MSGID: 1:129/305 6f7258f3       TID: GE 1.2       |03Quoting message from |11Nick Andre |03to |11Kurt Weiske       |03on |1105 May 22 15:17:05|03.              NA> On 05 May 22 07:44:00, Kurt Weiske said the following to Nick Andre:       NA>        KW> NA> I've worked with people who call themselves programmers because they       KW> NA> can crunch a few numbers in Excel.       KW>        KW> I've sat across the table in interviews with people that talked about       KW> "coding in HTML". Anything they said after that sort of blended into       KW> the background noise.       NA>        NA> Thats one part of my career I've never been tasked with, hiring others.       NA>        NA> Nick                     I have a good eye for people, but really to hire someone you just need to        look at their work history and not be too picky. if someone is of a decent        age and they only work at a place 1-2 years something is certainly up.              there's also this ACT test they have called workkeys that really gauges how        employable a person is.               i took it years ago and i'm employable in about 90%       of the workforce. this test really tests a person's ability to reason and        look for information. there's also a math test. all of this is timed and it        gets progressivly harder. there's no way to cheat on it too.       it's the only test i have taken that i can say really does a good job gauging        someones abilities.              --- Renegade v1.30/DOS        * Origin: The Titantic BBS Telnet - ttb.rgbbs.info (1:129/305)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 129/330 331 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112       SEEN-BY: 229/206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 633/280 712/848       PATH: 129/305 229/426           |
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