Re^3: Googlish approach to voting/XP?

[afoken]

If I received a CV that included Saint on Perl Monks or anything similar, it would move the person up the pile for sure.

But if you know what being a Saint on Perlmonks means, you would not work in HR. The sad fact is that HR people often don't have any clue about the business they work for, especially in larger companies.

I work in a small company, and even there, nobody except me has any clue what being a Perlmonks Saint means. I use Perl for automating stuff while building our software, and while the other developers can surely edit the mostly small scripts, nobody would write new Perl code. They lack the deeper understanding of the Perl culture. It's more like "Bambam hungry. Bambam hunts oink oink. Bambam eats oink oink. Bambam happy." No traces of Shakespeare, Jagger–Richards, or Lennon–McCartney, not even Kelly Bundy.

Alexander

[Bod]

But if you know what being a Saint on Perlmonks means, you would not work in HR

My company is not large enough to have an HR department so I decide who we hire and who we don't, usually with input from others.

Not having an HR person can be a bind, but mostly, it is a big relief...I'm not looking forward to the day that I delegate recruitment to someone else but that day will come if we are going to achieve our growth targets - *SiGH*

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

My company is not large enough to have an HR department so I decide who we hire and who we don't, usually with input from others

Even in large companies with a HR department, hiring of programmers should be done primarily at the team level. Being a Saint on Perl Monks is not a free pass. All applicants must be asked to write code and interact with future team members as part of the interview process.

See also: Re: Similarities of Perl and Python? (Interviewing References)