I guess if you were playing with the Alpha and Beta releases of .Net 4, then it's possible you've got about 2 yrs experience with it..
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:39 PM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was at an Australian (alleged) News site where they have job ads from > > their sister sites/sponsors in one of the columns, one was for a Senior > > .NET Role, so I thought I'd have a sticky beak... The first requirement > was: > > > > "5-10 years in C#.Net 2.0-3.5" > > > > VS2005 release was October 2005, with the 2.0 Framework Redistributable > > made available in Jan 2006.... > > > > Why why why? > > Mm, I saw something similar (2 years in C# 4.0 or something). > > It's arguably interesting. I mean, there are a few solutions to the > problem: > > 1/ Recruiters hire programmers to vet all their jobs ad's > - Cons: Expensive, time consuming > - Pros: Hopefully acurate > > 2/ Recruiters do research themselves and get everything correct > - Even more time consuming than the above, and probably less accurate > > 3/ Recruiters take requirements from clients, publish them in an > 'appropriate fashion' and hope people 'get the idea' > - Current process > > 4/ Some magical scheme whereby the positions are posted in such a way > that errors are impossible (i.e. the job website deals with it), or > any other scheme I can't think of > - Not currently available > > Clearly, the most likely situation is 3. If only for the reason that > it applies to all fields and not only programming. I think we can all > agree that there is, generally, a different set of skills required in > the recruiting business as compared to the given business they recruit > in. As a pipe to the companies they are arguably efficient (from both > ends). Now, if people are being rejected by recruiters for not > *having* 10 years experience in .NET N.M, then that's not good. But in > my experience, this is not the case. I hope I've bored you enough with > this response. I'll go back to watching Star Trek now. > > -- > silky > > Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature. >
