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job interview ? what's personality got to do with hiring programmers ?

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  • B BillWoodruff

    jakeshare wrote:

    Nobody wants to work with a dick who's an expert at (e.g.) C++ and is obnoxiously right most of the time.

    Glad to see you have an active fantasy life :omg:

    jakeshare wrote:

    Hard skills training is a lot easier than soft skills training

    I can see why you're a recruiter.

    «One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

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    I'm not a recruiter. I teach people how to find jobs.

    --- Job Search Expert JobMob

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      I'm not a recruiter. I teach people how to find jobs.

      --- Job Search Expert JobMob

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      Congratulations on not being a recruiter ! I read your article up until I read:

      Quote:

      Why are soft skills important? A 1918 study – yes, over 100 years ago – by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation and Stanford Research Center, found that “85% of a person’s job success is a product of interpersonal (soft) skills and that only 15% of his success is the result of technical knowledge (hard skills).” Does that still hold up today? It certainly feels right, give or take. What is true is that many recruiters prefer candidates having all the desired soft skills while missing some of the required hard skills rather than vice-versa. Hard skills training is a lot easier than soft skills training.

      At which point I threw up :wtf:

      «One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

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