RE: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread silky
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

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread Arjang Assadi
Get this: Back in 2004 I remember ads asking for at least 5 years experience in .net I guess the way it works is that they have a template for job X and Junior and Senior roles differ by Y years of experince. And let Z be the smallest number such that after Z years a junior programmer is

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread Grant Molloy
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 michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: I was at an Australian (alleged) News site where they have job ads from their sister

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread David Connors
On 29 July 2010 23:15, Les Hughes l...@datarev.com.au wrote: 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? Recruiters are sales people - same as car and real estate sales people (but

RE: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread David Kean
: [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 michaelsli...@gmail.commailto:michaelsli...@gmail.com wrote: I was at an Australian (alleged

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
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

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread Corneliu I. Tusnea
He was very serious about it and quite a bit upset as he considered I was lying in my application that I have the 5y experience. I also failed the job because of that :) (not 5y xp) Oh well, sh*** happens everyday Corneliu. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Arjang Assadi

RE: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread Richard Blackman
to get the job. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Grant Molloy Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 6:29 AM To: michaelsli...@gmail.com; ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters I guess if you were playing with the Alpha and Beta releases of .Net 4

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread tonywr
hahaha, and we all know what a mistake he made, hey Corneliu? Obviously missed asking the right questions and missed an exceptional candidate. My experience a few years ago with recruiters was seeing a whole lot of ads on seek asking for developers, and then having the exact same recruiters

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread Liam McLennan
The recruitment industry does have a code of conduct to which most agree. Part of that code is not to post jobs that don't exist, however, doing so seems to be common practice. I look forward to the demise of the recruitment industry. They don't appear to add any value other than a possible legal

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread noonie
Then maybe you should have asked him ... and how many years driving experience do you have? and then get him to do the math ;-) -- Neale NOON On 30 July 2010 10:04, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: He was very serious about it and quite a bit upset as he considered I was

Re: [OT] Friday - Recruiters

2010-07-29 Thread David Richards
*golf claps* :) I'd rather push this idea the other way. Obviously 5 years experience is an approximation of the years in which you were experiencing the activity in questions. Perhaps decades would be a more beneficial unit. I've been developing for 13 years, that's 2 decades experience! Or