Re: What to do when your son tell you he hates you.

Clisby wrote:


enigma wrote:
Beliavsky <beliavsky@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1193385521.091096.51550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

(1) he worked odd jobs out of the field
(2) 5 years experience in a trade that had only existed
for 7 years at the time. yeah, that was likely.

Are you saying that he should have obtained a B.S. in
computer science instead?


not at all. i'm saying that employers sometimes ask for the impossible in employees.

Yeah, I remember my husband once showing me an employment ad requiring "10 years of C++ experience." At the time, you'd just about have to have been Bjarne Stroustrup's right-hand assistant at Bell Labs to meet that requirement.

That sort of thing is rampant in tech positions.
The hiring supervisors haven't got a clue about the technical
details and they're just going off of similar requirements for
other positions at the salary/whatever level they're hiring
for. Fortunately, you can usually ignore those. You write
up an explanation in your cover letter and hope the resume
makes it past the recruiting department to the technical
manager, who will likely jump on a good candidate and yell
at the recruiting folks.

Best wishes,
Ericka
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