log.illsley.org

The recruitment fair I represented IBM at last week was really good fun. It was interesting to spend some time with Kat and Marina from the consulting/services arm of IBM. I now know a little more about consulting but probably still not enought to talk about it to potential recruits. Because I know very little of consulting and Marina and Kat little of Software Development we were constantly ’swapping’ the people we were talking to. Of course I knew IBM does Management Consulting but that was something that a lot of the people who came across didn’t so the first thing I did was introduce them to the idea of doing consulting with IBM and when they expressed an interest confess to knowing little and hand them off to someone else. A little embarassing The other eye-opener was the nuber of non-EU computer science students there are in Scotland looking for jobs in the UK. Unfortunately IBM can’t accept applications from people without work visas so those were interesting if fruitless discssions. They were interesting because while UK students asked questions and said a bit about themselves if asked the foreign students (generally) were far more forward and were continually selling themselves and listing some other impressive knowledge they had.