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Wake Up Dot Comers! |
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If you don't have Web experience, lower expectations |
| Date Posted: |
09/18/2000 |
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Hi Steve,
How right you are! Dot-coms are missing the true value of business. I read your note and felt like I was reading my life's story over the last few weeks. I, too, have a solid foundation in business, and excellent credentials, AND a sales and marketing background. But...are the dot-coms I'm interviewing at giving me a chance? They love me when I walk in the door. They spend an eager hour discussing their company, asking my opinion, questioning me on my background. Then...then...then I wait for the second interview but it never comes. Because I filled out their application when I went in for the interview, and they found out I'm over 30. I don't look it. But, I am. A bit over 30. But smart, and savvy, and more knowledgeable than most of them. And all I want is to be a team player.
The interesting thing is: dot-coms are in their infancy, and so are the people interviewing for employees. The ones that can recognize talent and hire it, will succeed. The ones that turn a blind eye to diversity, will fail. Funny thing is, they are doing to us exactly what they told us not to do to them when they were teenagers; box us in one group without exception. With the pace of technology today, I expect to win over one of them soon...and find a place that I can grow in. And, to all the dot-coms that think I'm not good enough: Watch out. I have a good memory!
Big Mama in Cyberland
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As to being too young-- you're looking at the wrong companies. I've never interviewed with a dot-com with the Director I'd work under being less than 33. I wouldn't want managment to be under 33. I would never interview with a company that doesn't have top shelf management and funding or the risk is too big in the fall 2000 web world.
I will also say that part of the reason I left my first .com was because my new boss was coming from an offline marketing role. Granted, she had a million dollar budget and was great there. But when I saw things like her not understanding how to figure what's hot-linked and what's not (move cursur over screen and see what happens...), it got me thinking about the millions of _differences_ of working with a product that exhists totally in Web space. It might be different if we were selling an offline product.
I also must say, as someone that's been doing Web stuff for 4 years, it's crazy to see all the people jump into the field because of options. How can so many super smart people have fooled themselves into thinking that they had anything other than a very slim chance of getting rich quick by joining a .com. Maybe now the get rich quick crowd will get out of the industry and make way for folks who are truly excited by the Web in a realistic way.
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