Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov+usenet@pobox.com> wrote:
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| ...then personal acquaintance is apparently a much better
| predictor of hiring in this case than knowledge of a particular
| programming language...
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Actually, if you look at the better job-finding resources
[e.g., the excellent "What Color Is Your Parachute?"],
you will discover that personal acquaintance [even through
a couple of levels of indirection] is the *BEST* predictor
of hiring, bar none!
-Rob
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