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>Smart applicants enclose a cover note or the relevant parts of the >company lay-off policy letter that authorized them to use the company >stationary. This proactive approach tells me that they see the >connection between their actions and the consequences...making them
>the sort of people I want to hire.
Interesting. In other words, you actively select for subordinates who
expect their actions to be treated with suspicion.
>Conversley, those who can't anticipate my probable negative
>reaction are probably too dumb for me to bother about interviewing.
One could argue equally convincingly that the people with a high level
of trust are the smart ones. Specious definitions of intelligence are
like that.
-- Robert
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Robert Plamondon * High-Tech Technical Writing
36475 Norton Creek Road * Blodgett OR 97326
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