I just read a posting on a website at the UW: the author is a hiring manager in the client services group in the computing and communications group and he was bemoaning the fact he has been trying to hire a senior manager for about a year and hasn’t been able to.
First of all, the fact that anyone has a technology management job vacant for that long is very frustrating: in this market, am I to believe there are no qualified candidates? Nothing even close?
The author goes on to say that none of the resumes match what he’s looking for. Oh, well, that’s different: I thought he was looking for people, not resumes. Perhaps if he read through the resumes and looked beyond the bullet points and buzzwords to get a sense of the person and what they have done, he might have filled that job.