Mark Kosmowski wrote:
For Mike and the rest of you:
If one of these unqualified applicants had accurately mapped out their
deficiencies and let you know that they would need a little training,
would said applicant have been considered at all or would their resume
have been filed in the "circular file" (slang for the trash bin)?
Does someone who has maintained a personal cluster for their graduate
research have any reasonable chance of landing some sort of admin
position? Given that state of the economy, I've been kind of hoping
that I could look into admin positions as a backup plan if a position
in my field is not readily available once I finish my doctoral studies
- it would be helpful to know whether this is a realistic possibility.
I think that type of person stands an excellent chance of being hired.
One of the best admins that I ever had was finishing his PhD. His case
was a bit different in that he had started the PhD, been hired by a
computer company, worked for them for 5 years and then been laid off.
The way that he learned all of that in the first place was doing it for
his research.
When I built our first linux cluster as a proof of concept in 1998, I
had to learn the details via reseach and trial and error. Thge ability
to learn and a good work ethic will go a long way.
Mike
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