If you have not created a job letter for your resume yet, below is a job ad and address you can use. This would be particularly interesting for people wanting experience in computing related to health sciences.

NOTE the requirements and personal qualities mentioned in the ad and refer to them specifically in your letter. Derick will be one of our guest interviewers along with recruiters from IBM. This is a mock interview, just to give you experience thinking on your feet; however, it might also be real. Last year, one of the students in the mock interview was offered a job with IBM.

I realize that you are seeing this new job ad only now, so here's the bottom line regarding handing in the job ad, letter, and resume.

Best scenario: You hand in a letter, a copy of the job ad you are responding to, and a resume, stapled together tomorrow. Here is the order of stapling: 1) JOB AD with your name on top, then letter, then resume.

Another scenario: Hand in the resume tomorrow and get the job ad and letter to me via email NO LATER THAN NOON WEDNESDAY, October 21. That would give me a chance to put it together with your resume in time to meet the interviewers at 4:30 p.m.

Final scenario: Bring the job ad, letter, and resume to Einstein's pub -- across the street from the Bahen -- by 4:30 Wednesday October 21.

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This is not a real ad -- yet -- but it might be someday. Derick will be one of our guest interviewers

Address your letter to:

Derick Hirasawa
Director, Research Computing
Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Bayview Campus
2075 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4N 3M5

Research Computing Co-op Student.

This is a position working with the Research Computing Department of Sunnybrook Hospital.

It involves supporting the scientists at Sunnybrook in doing anything with the computers/network.

This is a truly awful job for people who demand repetitive routine. Scientists can be working on all sorts of systems doing research into ... whatever they can get grant money for . . . so you need to be able to think creatively and solve problems.

We favour the use of open-source tools like samba, ldap, kerberos etc. This means you can't phone up tech support and get some paid drone to answer your questions.

Our network backend is 10 Gig Foundry/Cisco. A knowledge of some kind of UNIX like Solaris or Linux would be helpful.

I'm mainly looking for is someone who can think creatively and learn quickly.