Comments on: Employers’ preferences for academic letter recommendations http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/employers-preferences-for-academic-letter-recommendations/ Daniel Lemire's blog is about life in academia, research in Computer Science, wondering how we can reconcile fast databases and algorithms with the informal and asemantic nature of the world around us. It is broadcasted from Montreal (Canada). Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:01:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Nico http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/employers-preferences-for-academic-letter-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-2336 Nico Wed, 11 May 2005 13:36:12 +0000 http://www.daniel-lemire.com/blog/archives/2005/05/10/employers-preferences-for-academic-letter-recommendations/#comment-2336 I dont know if it means that much, the survey was not about all the employers. Check this quote about the method they used: "A cover letter describing the study and a questionnaire were mailed to 600 Information Systems (IS) Managers, Directors, and VP's of companies randomly selected from NASDAQ." I think it's normal that IT corporations seem to give more value to the voice of a CIS professor. I dont know if it means that much, the survey was not about all the employers. Check this quote about the method they used:

“A cover letter describing the study and a questionnaire were mailed to 600 Information Systems (IS) Managers, Directors, and VP’s of companies randomly selected from NASDAQ.”

I think it’s normal that IT corporations seem to give more value to the voice of a CIS professor.

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