Hi Steve, Thanks for the info. This is definitely valuable for me. I'm glad you're willing to share this with everyone.
Kind Regards, On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Steve Gilles <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Joshua, > > I'm an IT recruiter and have seen this happen a few times before. > > For example, I placed an experienced programmer in an iPhone > development job and at the time he was new to Objective C. His salary > wasn't what it was before but it didn't reboot back to that of a > junior either. > > It's wise to prepare for a pay cut given your situation, but there are > things you can do to minimise this. Launching a number of personal > Rails projects is one of them. > > Focus on pleasing the geeks and don't worry too much about HR. The > majority of Rails jobs at the moment are filled within the community > by people who know better than to just look at "years experience". > > Even if you do come up against HR - remember that no one has more than > 5 years rails experience anyway. > -- Certified Scrum Master http://blog.scrum8.com | http://jobs.scrum8.com | http://twitter.com/scrum8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
