Comments on inevitable: Why Would I Hire You?

Awsome post Himawan ! I specially loved the part:...

2011-12-20T01:17:41.891+04:00

Awsome post Himawan !

I specially loved the part:

"Technical competency can be built but someone attitude may not change after many years."

I have met a few guys who have extraordinary technical expertise but they miserably lack sense of teamwork.

Sometimes I wonder if this kind of thing can really be changed in someone's mind.

Some weeks ago people had a very interesting conversation about this topic in nanog's mailing list: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=146800;page=1;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;mh=25;list=nanog

No company is special, except our own :) But if on...

2011-12-13T07:18:01.232+04:00

No company is special, except our own :) But if one can have at least half from what I asked, the person should be able to survive anywhere

Survival of the fittest. If you're good you...

2011-12-13T00:51:41.715+04:00

Survival of the fittest. If you're good you'll survive anywhere....Cisco ain't that special. When the sacking/redundancy comes...all reputation, experience, brand name goes down the shoot.

Hi Anonymous #5, the context in this post is clear...

2011-12-12T19:49:46.621+04:00

Hi Anonymous #5,
the context in this post is clearly written in the first sentence. And frankly even in my own company in the future it would be too small to have a hiring frenzy, so I would still ask the same question...

Hi Anonymous #3, I don't know which multinatio...

2011-12-12T19:47:51.071+04:00

Hi Anonymous #3, I don't know which multinational companies that you meant, but I have been in 3 of them including Cisco and yes, it's true you need connection, but connection only can bring you to the door for the interview. It's still who you know (or who knows you), what you know, and what you have done. In my case personally to join Cisco I have many people from inside Cisco as well from customer (VP level) as my reference and yet I needed to pass 7 interview steps, 4 were really technical, to get in. Some people may be "lucky" as you said, but in my case it's still connection, real expertise and experience or reputation that matter

I believe that startups and owning your own compan...

2011-12-11T16:22:40.763+04:00

I believe that startups and owning your own company has and will always be the way to go. Let not you send out a CV but people send you a CV and convince you why you should hire them.

If Cisco doesn't hire..there is Juniper / Aris...

2011-12-10T19:31:15.997+04:00

If Cisco doesn't hire..there is Juniper / Arista...

Hi Himawan, all what you said is correct but in r...

2011-12-10T01:20:15.095+04:00

Hi Himawan,

all what you said is correct but in real life 99% of the multinational companies look for the above as secondary. what they look at is " who can support your application inside your dream company?". who do you know inside???? i know many guys who has more than what you mentioned above but they and the hiring staff inside their dream company are from different nationality? which means " no luck :-(
correct me if i am wrong.

regards

Why would Cisco hire me?

2011-12-09T18:35:41.668+04:00

Why would Cisco hire me?

Good advice. Success is a journey , challenge .......

2011-12-09T17:56:24.197+04:00

Good advice. Success is a journey , challenge ....

Nha