TA Professional Perspectives

Continued from September ... Unfortunately, those were not exceptions. As candidates, we are agonizing over grammar, punctuation and yes, content. But the likes of CIBC disrespect their potential employees allowing glaring misspelling and long but hollow sounding job descriptions. To start with a grossly misspelled first word is indeed a performance and is making this job and CIBC stand out! Do I care reading further? My impression is already formed, just like an employer would form the same impression had I forwarded a resume containing the same typo. Or maybe I am wrong, only employees have to have good grammar, HR and hiring managers, always having the thicker end of the stick, are excepted. Or maybe grammar is not that important after all, someone can still be a valuable employee/employer despite typos and hollow sentences, but if so, why entertain this whole circus? Maybe job descriptions and resumes should just be ATS style, to the point, forget chest-pounding on the employee si...

 How not to do CT: a real life experience This article eventually was not published, as the body for which it was destined deemed it too negative. Well, everyone knows we learn more from mistakes than from successes. In my opinion, it is better to publish a "negative" story once in a while rather than yet another positive platitude that will not offend anyone but won't engage the readers either. https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2019/10/23/13/47/cloud-server-not-working-4571660__340.png Migration to the Cloud was sold to our client as being the silver bullet to their cost-cutting efforts [Big Mistake #1] and the basis for their continuous business with our firm. A cross-divisional, cross-functional and cross-country team was assembled for this task. I was on the application testing side of things, together with the other co-located developers-cum-testers who had been the steady stewards of this application for many years. Our mission was handed down to us from higher above:...