Comments on: Even with an interview cheat-sheet, an over-40 American Citizen can’t get the job http://progressivegeek.com/archives/77 A Progressive Cast for the Working Caste. News and views on the labor movement, offshoring, insourcing, and everything that ails the middle class today. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:59:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: beadew http://progressivegeek.com/archives/77#comment-1188 beadew Thu, 29 May 2008 02:10:48 +0000 http://progressivegeek.com/archives/77#comment-1188 Yeah, I have been to a lot of those interviews. Finally I got an offer from a company that does hire Americans, including older folks. No, it isn't AARP! It's a very large company located in a very small town in NW Arkansas. What, like Wal-Mart? That's the one! We have some very advanced IT and we are hiring. Yeah, I have been to a lot of those interviews. Finally I got an offer from a company that does hire Americans, including older folks. No, it isn’t AARP! It’s a very large company located in a very small town in NW Arkansas. What, like Wal-Mart? That’s the one! We have some very advanced IT and we are hiring.

]]> By: Hamilton http://progressivegeek.com/archives/77#comment-1071 Hamilton Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:18:24 +0000 http://progressivegeek.com/archives/77#comment-1071 There's an interesting point to notice here. The Indian applicant sent a cheat-sheet back to the recruiter. In my experience, foreign students and tech workers are much more inter-relationship and team oriented than Americans. An Americans might have felt uncomfortable about sending back the cheat-sheet, (I would have). You can take away from this whatever you want, but as competition ramps up with India and China, it seems to me that we're competing with cultures that don't have the same perception of 'political correctness', or fairness that Americans might have. To get a closer approximation, think of the 'Good 'Ol Boys' networks of the 1920's in America. There’s an interesting point to notice here. The Indian applicant sent a cheat-sheet back to the recruiter. In my experience, foreign students and tech workers are much more inter-relationship and team oriented than Americans. An Americans might have felt uncomfortable about sending back the cheat-sheet, (I would have).

You can take away from this whatever you want, but as competition ramps up with India and China, it seems to me that we’re competing with cultures that don’t have the same perception of ‘political correctness’, or fairness that Americans might have. To get a closer approximation, think of the ‘Good ‘Ol Boys’ networks of the 1920’s in America.

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