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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8245126, member: 19463&quot;]I very much disagree with this.&nbsp; To do this sort of work with any efficiency, someone would have to work very quickly and not have to &#039;look up&#039; or &#039;figure out&#039; every coin.&nbsp; How would a firm decide who to hire?&nbsp; I might suggest providing 1000 high quality images and giving a timed test showing one at a time making sure that Superman could not get finished in the time allowed.&nbsp; Of course the &#039;test&#039; subjects would include some commonly made mistakes (you know, the Caracalla/Elagabalus, Maximianus/Galerius, Didda Rani/Sandragupta type stuff).&nbsp; Then the grade would apply a factor rights minus 10x wrongs just to weed out the guessers.&nbsp; I also wonder how many people have access to the kind of library required to do this correctly.&nbsp; I know I don&#039;t but I only have a few hundred books.&nbsp; Is Leu hoping that one of the current employees of Harlan Berk, CNG or NGC will decide to moonlight?&nbsp; I see two possibilities here; neither good.&nbsp; The could be fishing for what they know to be impossible.&nbsp; How many jobs seek a PhD with 20 years experience willing to work for minimum wages with no benefits?&nbsp; Good luck.&nbsp; The other possibility is to turn up someone who could do the job and would enjoy the work but does not meet half the requirements.&nbsp; They might even take on that job as a resume builder.&nbsp; Maybe furryfrogIVN should apply.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recall them stating you had to be over twelve. Leu has a &#039;name&#039; in the industry.&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t strike me as a way to keep that name.&nbsp; I just remembered that I never heard who was hired the last few times we had these job postings.&nbsp; It is too soon to expect to hear about the British Museum position.&nbsp; Who was added to the NGC Ancients staff?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a fan of Jeopardy on TV.&nbsp; They advertise their &#039;Anytime Test&#039; that is the first step toward becoming a contestant and having the opportunity to prove you are a fool rather than leaving the question with a smidgen of doubt.&nbsp; I have not taken the test and probably won&#039;t but part of me would like to know how I would do.&nbsp; In fact, if they called and asked me to fly to where they tape, I would not go.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, I would like to see the &#039;entrance exam&#039; for a professional cataloger.&nbsp; Could we simulate this as a game here on CT?&nbsp; What if we posted a bunch of coins with an unannounced number of errors included asking each player to identify the correct ones and correct the errors?&nbsp; Again I would insist on a factor like rights minus not just wrongs but minus 10x wrongs.&nbsp; I&#039;d do pretty well in a few of my specialties but would be lucky to get any number of the Islamic and other tricky areas that are very much not in my experience or interest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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