[H-GEN] Solaris/Linux Systems Admin position in QUT - IHBI

[Benjamin Fowler]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com> wrote:

> On 2008-07-24, listpuppy wrote:
>
> > Is it just me, or is the salary on offer a bit shit?
>
> I'd imagine that would depend on the skills of the applicant.  I would
> certainly find it hard to pay $60k to an applicant for a sys admin job
> who thought top-posting was OK or who was unable to operate their editor
> sufficiently well to trim the irrelevant matter from the quoted text in
> their message.



I'd argue that netiquette is more a function of emotional intelligence than
technical skill.  The last two jobs I've worked at, we've used
Outlook/Exchange (I'm not a fan of either but them's the breaks), and been
bollocked by some very smart people for not top-posting, which seems to be
the convention in Outlook/Exchange shops.  My fault, really, since I didn't
have the brains to learn the local posting convention beforehand, and stick
to it.

That said, if the employer is hiring technical staff, especially in the
current job market, then I think that obvious measures of emotional
intelligence (like sticking to social convention) is marginally less
important then the candidate's actual ability to get the job done, which is
why you're hiring in the first place.  I suppose the former is more
important as a fine discriminator, when you're having trouble deciding
between a set of really good candidates.

Cheers,

Ben.
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