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Suppose the computer-run test was truly interactive, where the applicant could fill in something, then the program would check it and discard the parts that don't fit the desired pattern, and give one free letter as a clue what's missing, and then the applicant would get another chance, etc. as many clues as needed until the applicant gets the correct answer? I'd like to buy a vowel.

From: Phlip < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it I thought Google detected and responded correctly to text-mode browsers like Lynx. Obviously you're mistaken, unless you consider the following to be responding correctly : Start up lynx, go to this URL:    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.software-eng/msg/97804f2e06bfbd3e... Relevant part on screen:    Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | View Thread | Show    original | Report Abuse Click on Reply , relevant part of what's now on screen:    New to Google Groups?  Sign up now Click on Sign up now , relevant part of what's now on screen:    Word Verification:    Type the characters you see in the picture below.    If you can read this, you do not have images enabled. Please enable    images in order to proceed.    ______________________________    characters are not case-sensitive Do you agree it'd be better for it to use some other way to verify you're a human, not a 'bot, if your browser doesn't support images, and that telling a Lynx user to please enable images is really stupid? Why can't they be honest and say straight out We discriminate against anyone using Lynx or any other browser that doesn't allow us to dance our annoying advertisements all over your screen making your experience here so painful that you pay us money for premium service just to esccape from our cruddy free service ?

I (again) suggest you go to the public library and look into the section there that has job-hunting information including how to write a resume books/guides. Local community colleges are good sources as well.  Find a few of their examples and recast yours to at least <look like some of them. Including the book leading that field, /What Color is Your Parachute/, which I have repeatedly suggested and repeatedly been ignored. Talk about self-sabotage! The passengers on the Titanic *KNEW* they did not need lifeboats.   ...at what point?  They might have changed their minds after the journey began.   While we can make mistakes that are uncorrectable later, many are not so restrictive.  I would think that after a while one would explore why they are not receiving the career opportunities they think they deserve. Sometimes we need to change the message we are broadcasting.  This is especially true when the image we perceive is not what others see.   David

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) writes: Suppose the computer-run test was truly interactive, where the applicant could fill in something, then the program would check it and discard the parts that don't fit the desired pattern, and give one free letter as a clue what's missing, and then the applicant would get another chance, etc. as many clues as needed until the applicant gets the correct answer? I'd like to buy a vowel. Actually, I had a queueing theory professor (Kleinrock) who allowed students to buy part of an answer for a few exam points.  The idea was rather than having the student be stuck, giving the student a bit of assistance would help the student complete the rest of the exam question. Is there some reason why this type of assistance should not be available in testing software engineers?  Especially since in jobs, software engineers don't operate in vacuums; they consult man pages, help pages, web pages, even other software engineers for assistance in solving problems. If it's cheating you're worried about, ask them to take the exam in person at a site of your choosing.

and if you click on Looking for employment you get just a single resume, the 1998.Nov resume, which is the most recent ASCII version on the Tripod site:  http://members.tripod.com/~MaasInfo/SeekJob/Resume.98B.txt You don't like that resume?? What exactly is wrong with it?    Okay, I'll bite, one last time...    1. It's seven years out of date, to judge from the filename (which a savvy potential employer /will/ notice).    2. (minor) There's no postal address listed.    3. You use the word Voice instead of Phone or Telephone , and the mouthful Internet electronic-mail instead of the correct e-mail . Your BiCapitalization of your e-mail address suggests you are out of touch with current Web conventions, which in turn suggests you may be out of touch with current technology.    4. (debatable) I would write B.S. in mathematics at the University of... rather than simply Mathematics major at... with the fact that it's a B.S. tacked on the end. I imagine recruiters care more for the degree than the major (especially when it's not computer science).    5. There's that high-school math contest again. Drop it. (The Putnam is good; I'd keep it, losing only the whole in whole United States