conducting interviews ::

today i helped conduct interviews. couldn't help but to feel sad when this guy, slightly younger than my mother dropped by for an interview for a junior programming position. in fact, he was quite overqualified, so me and reves, tried to tell him that, but he seemed quite adamant about getting relatively low pay so that he could at least find work. when we checked his resume, we thought he could have been out of work for at least a year and he's got 2 kids. probably our age or even younger.

i don't know, but could sense that he seemed quite forlorn when we told him that he may be overqualified. reality can be so harsh. i see my friends zipping ard in a porche, travelling around in national team competing for 'ultimate' glory and this older guy looking around for a job, for a junior position, struggling perhaps to feed his 2 young children.

i felt bad about people having masters, taking leave from their work, coming, hoping that we can give them a job when we are only primary school kids and they probably know enough qualify to be a secondary school teacher and only to find out that we are not looking out for their set of skills. waste of time indeed..

so many people are getting microsoft certified. suddenly, it doesn't seemed that impressive anymore. oh well..