Comments for Hiring Technical People

Comment on Handshakes are Important by Jaky Astik

Jaky Astik — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:26:08 +0000

I remember when I was still in my college, I had friends who made sure to shake hands on every important occasion. It’s a primary step to persuasion. Now, I use it regularly.

Comment on Technical Ability is No Guarantee of Success by Jaky Astik

Jaky Astik — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:10:45 +0000

Technical ability can never be counted as a success factor after all. Just look at Henry Ford and his technical abilities. He was more a managerial than technical. That's what strategic management is!

Comment on Technical Ability is No Guarantee of Success by Will at Virtualjobcoach

Will at Virtualjobcoach — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:12:52 +0000

>You can still be successful technically if you’re not superb at these interpersonal skills. But you can’t manage anything well unless you master enough of these (and other interpersonal) skills.

What about Bill Gates? He seemed to be able to manage some very big things while not having great interpersonal skills. His famous line when I was at Microsoft was “that’s the stupidest f*cking thing I have ever heard.”

Comment on Non-Competes Can Hurt Your Hiring by Karen Siwak

Karen Siwak — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:17:52 +0000

http://venturelaw.blogspot.com/2007/01/non-compete-clauses-canada-vs-us.html
This article provides a good overall discription of how non-compete laws differ between Canada and the US. In short, non-compete restrictions are enforced by Canadian courts for employees in fiduciary positions (senior execs), even if there isn’t an explicit non-compete contract. On the other hand, courts tend not to enforce non-compete restrictions for general employees, even if its written in a contract, but will enforce a non-solicitation agreement.

Comment on Non-Competes Can Hurt Your Hiring by Will at Virtualjobcoach

Will at Virtualjobcoach — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:25:47 +0000

In the US there has been an increase in the enforcement of non-competes (recent MS/Google tiff), but most states really don’t enforce them. I believe that MD and CA are the states that are more prone to enforce. Tip is to take the vague ‘non-compete’ that is boilerplate and WAY TOO BROAD and make it specific to the product that you are working on.

Comment on Non-Competes Can Hurt Your Hiring by Dwayne Phillips

Dwayne Phillips — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:31:23 +0000

In government circles, government employees try to sole source contracts instead of having competitions. The reason is that having a competition is not any fun and usually produces a bad outcome.

Given the Federal Acquisition Regulations – the competition usually does not award a contract to the firm that produces the best product. The award almost always goes to the firm that wrote the best proposal. There is a difference among the two.

The most desired outcome of a competition is to do it in such a way as to not cause a protest from a losing firm. To avoid these, you check off all the boxes in the most stringent process available. Making stupid decisions is not grounds for a protest, but failing to dot an “i” or cross a “t” is grounds for a protest.

The system, the regulations are the cause of the pain and the reason for not competing contracts.

Comment on Handshakes are Important by Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:52:28 +0000

Many people get diseases form hand shakes, imagen how much people don’t wash their hands after unsing the restroom and then you shake hands with them…

Comment on Handshakes are Important by Satish

Satish — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:11:09 +0000

I guess this is only true for US or Western world. At least in the world I live in I never heard of using handshake as a parameter But then I guess with the new wave of people who have read all these american body language books, it’s kind of becoming a fad to judge people by their body language, how they look, how they shake hands, etc … But people forget cultural backgrounds are important and there are no general rules to help you out.

Comment on Handshakes are Important by HR World » Blog Archive » Wednesday Links: HR Blog Search Tool, Costco

HR World » Blog Archive » Wednesday Links: HR Blog Search Tool, Costco — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:58:58 +0000

[...] Hiring Technical People talks about the importance of a firm handshake. I used to get the “no limp fish” talk too! [...]

Comment on Handshakes are Important by Todd

Todd — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:10:48 +0000

The handshake deconstructed. More info than you ever knew existed on handshakes: http://www.manager-tools.com/2006/04/secrets-of-a-great-handshake