Years back when I came to Australia I applied to a job that required "5
years on VC++ Experience" (which I had).
During the interview the guy noticed I had in my CV the position of
"Technical Team Lead [for a 8 person team] & Senior Dev" that I had for 5
years doing VC++ and asked me:
- How much of your time was dedicated to being the "TTL" of the team?
- About 20-30% I said.
10 seconds later he said:
- Well, you can't say you have 5 years of VC++ Experience then. You only
have 4! As you spend the rest as TTL
WTFFFFFF?????

Well, most of the requiters are just paper movers and people filters. I know
very few of them that are able to do a more than basic interview.

When you go to the interview with a recruiter be bold, strong, sure on
yourself and "trash" him with your experience. If you "heard of" a
technology you are "good with it" if you used it you are "highly experienced
with it" and if you are really good you are more than a "field expert".
Just  present them everything +30% ... They wouldn't be able to figure it
out anyway.

Happy Friday,
Corneliu.


On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Les Hughes <[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?
> --
> Les Hughes
> [email protected]
>

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