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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: American Programmer (What's a Ph.D. worth?)
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Date: 4 Apr 88 23:16:36 GMT
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> In article <2218@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
> 
> >		  Positions nationally.  Fees paid by em-
> >		  ployers.  U.S. citizens or permanent res-
> >		  idents.  PhD or minimum three years,          <== Note
> >		  experience.  Call or write ... [etc.]
> >
> >Of course, that's just one recruiter's opinion.  Makes you wonder, though.
> 
> Based on my recent experience in jobhunting, equating a PhD with however
> many years it took you to get it is quite common.  Based on observation of

I can remember some years back seeing an ad in the LA Times that said,
"Minimum five years experience.  Will consider two years graduate work
equivalent to six months paid experience."  And from my own days as a
headhunter, a quote from a woman who was data processing manager for a
major cosmetics manufacturer, "Don't send me anyone with a M.S.  They
don't know how to DO anything."

Clayton E. Cramer