Because I have my resume on
monster.ca at the moment, I'm getting a lot of phone calls and email messages from IT recruiters. Many of these recruiters screen potential candidates by asking how many years of experience each candidate has with a particular software application. (For example: "For how many years have you been using FrameMaker?")
I'm not sure that this is the most effective way to winnow through a pile of resumes. Screening questions such as this reduce the field to two groups of candidates:
- The rare few people who have exactly the right amount of experience with each software application
- People who are willing to lie when asked screening questions
I suspect that there might be more people in group B than in group A.
