If it helps, my first job was in a mainly Maya based company and I've never touched Maya at that time. They liked my portfolio and never cared what software I used. They kindly let me use XSI back again for modeling because as you know, modeling in Maya pretty much sucks, specially back then.
When we talk about veteran experts that change a little because you want specific top level skills immediately. But students? nah, the truth is nobody takes very seriously an student software knowledge, but their potential and how they use their tools whatever they are. They only know about 30% of the software anyways, so if they are willing to study and have a good portfolio I'm sure they'll find a job in any Maya, Max or whatever but SI based studio. Martin Sent from my iPhone
