[Foundation-l] Kronberg Declaration on the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing (DRAFT)

[George Herbert]

This is not entirely foundation-specific, but:


On 7/3/07, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A point which was mentionned in the first draft, but now appears pretty
> much hidden under poorly defined terms, is the possibility to
> standardize curriculum vitae -

Heh.  Good luck with that.  It's not currently well standardized in
any normal work field I know of.  It's a major challenge in screening
and interviewing...

> so that hiring an Executive Director in
> France recover the same time of requirements and experience than in the
> USA - currently, many titles do not recover from one nation to another,
> making it doubly difficult for people to be hired in other countries.
> This will naturally also need a sort of standardization of diplomas, so
> that again, citizens can be hired more easily for the same job in
> another country.
> But also... maintaining a curriculum vitae which would not be written
> only by the person itself, but also by others. Right now, when we hire
> someone, it is frequent to ask contact of previous co-workers, so that
> we can collect information about the person, from another point of view.
> Why not set up a sort of wiki-curriculum vitae, where the resume is not
> only written by the person, but by the co-workers, who can leave their
> comments. This is also the type of service one can find in social network.

This gets into the areas where, in the US, employers are cautioned by
their HR and legal staff not to tread.  Companies and managers have
been successfully sued for putting negative comments out to potential
employers...


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-george william herbert
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