Re: a question relating to job application

"If you came into my shop able to demonstrate competence, where you
could
deploy an EJB, a Servlet, a JSP page that calls a custom Taglib,
describe an understanding of a few design patterns like MVC, configure
a
database pool under JBoss, map a Hibernate descriptor to an object and
a
table, and make JUnit insert, update, retreive, and remove that
persistent object, we would have no more technical questions for you.
If you can do all that, nobody cares if you learned it from a book.
That's where everyone else learned it, maybe with the occasional
day-long course here and there. "
James,
I am putting together an article on the best practices of hiring
manager and this is such a helpful piece of information! Would I be
correct in assuming as you said "nobody cares if you learned it from a
book" meaning you would hire recent grads as long as they could fit
those technical parameters? Just curious, if I were to prescreen for
these qualities prior to sending you a candidate (if you were a manager
I was working with), then you would appreciate that?? Of course, my
next question would be, in what way would you want me to prescreen for
those qualities? Clearly you are an exceptional manager that would hire
talent, and brains:-) and be willing to help someone acclimate to
corporate culture.
Maryellen O

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