In article
<78472578-9329-4b15-871b-686dd588c250@i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
sophia.agnes@gmail.com wrote:
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> what aspect of the candidate is given prime importance ?

Last time I was involved in interviewing people, when we looked back on
all the people we'd hired, and which ones turned out to be good and
which ones turned out not so good, the one thing that best correlated
with goodness, it turned out, was a group of questions we asked just to
get some personality information and break the ice before getting into
tough technical questions: read any good books lately? How much do you
read?

I have no idea why, but everyone who turned out good was a heavy reader.
And not just the stereotypical science fiction and fantasy...they tended
to read a variety of genres of fiction, and also non-fiction. Many had
a book with them, in case they had to wait for their interview.

It's been a few years, so I may be misremembering, but I think this went
the other way, too. Among the bad people, none were heavy readers.


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--Tim Smith