Job Skills - was Re: Tech-support Hall of Shame

[Brian Densmore]

I can accept the cultural greeting thing, but
to seems to me you are being a bit anal on the 
handshake thing. To judge an entire interview on a
handshake is, well pardon my French, inane [ok changed word]. 
Sorry if this insults, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
or handshake in this case. A bad handshake might be the 
result of injury to the hand. Judging a person's ability on
a handshake is ludicrous. 

</rant>

Sorry if I insult you. Just couldn't let it go.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron [mailto:aaron at aarons.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:29 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Job Skills - was Re: Tech-support Hall of Shame
> 
> 
> 
> > Hand shakes are just wierd... You have to leave your 
> personal space and
> *lean*
> > in to someone else's to make the connection. Not to mention 
> that you have
> to
> > ensure that you're standing exactly the length of each 
> other's arms when
> you're
> > ready to do the shake. And when do you do the shake? 
> Before, during, or
> after
> > the greeting? What if the other person doesn't shake? Then 
> you're left
> standing
> > there doing a James Dean brush of the hair. Too much work.
> 
> If you extend your hand and the other person doesn't shake 
> for no apparent
> good reason (broken arm, no hand, etc) then you've been 
> insulted.  The main
> thing is that you extended your hand and those around you 
> will see you as
> the better man for it.
> 
> > If you're hiring someone, I hope you don't use the hand 
> shake as a good
> first
> > impression. Personally, I think there much more to be read 
> about a person
> in
> > whether or not they're able to make eye contact with you.
> 
> The hand shake is the first impression.  It's the traditional 
> greeting in
> our culture.  You extend your hand, smile, look the other 
> person in the eyes
> and introduce yourself.  When I'm hiring someone, a bad 
> handshake means a
> bad interview.
> 
> If you think about it, it is kind of wierd that we grab 
> eachothers hands as
> a greeting.  Who knows where that hand's been?  For all I 
> know the other
> person could have just come from a vigrous butt picking 
> session, or worse.
> But that's the way it is.
> 
> Aaron
> 
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