"3/ Recruiters take requirements from clients, publish them in an 'appropriate fashion' and hope people 'get the idea' - Current process"
But then won't they expect you to have the required 5-10 years with a 4 year old technology on your CV...? Essentially they are requiring you to be a liar to get the job. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant Molloy Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 6:29 AM To: [email protected]; ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters 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]<mailto:[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.
