<html><head><base href="x-msg://2223/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 19/05/2010, at 11:19 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">When I’m reading resumes and interviewing there are a lot of ‘tells’ on how clueful someone is, how passionate they are about what they want to be doing. And if I get one bit on Gen Y attitude (what is in it for me), then get the hell out.</span></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div></div>The passion for the technology and the genuine curiosity is, I think, the key.<div><br></div><div>"What was your favourite shop to visit as a kid?"</div><div><br></div><div>If they answer something like Jaycar, local computer shop etc.</div><div><br></div><div>"Did you take things apart as a kid?"</div><div><br></div><div>"When did you first start to program?"</div><div><br></div><div>"When did your family first start asking you for tech advice?"</div><div><br></div><div>These are the key questions. If someone doesn't remember how to change duplex then that's just a fact they can learn, but the passion to learn and the interest and continual curiosity is what I look for.</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>