Re: Those requirements just get weirder :-)

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:43:45 +0100, "Tim Ward" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

><ian.illy@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:1129923216.804906.104860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> But what justification does anyone have to ask for 4 years experience
>> in a very specific area? Why should 1 year not do? Is it really so hard
>> that you need 4 years to learn it or what?
>>
>> Most of the IT recruitment sector is totally ignorant of the way
>> software development is done. They treat it like a 'craft' much like
>> where a joiner may well be better after 4 years than someone with only
>> one years experience.
>
>A programmer with twenty years experience is most certainly likely to be
>vastly better than one with two years experience, so in that respect it is
>very much like a craft ...
>
>> They also demand 'recent' experience as if this
>> is akin to athletes where muscles atrophy if not used. This is before
>> you take into consideration the fact that there is a huge variation in
>> programming ability between individuals, something of the order of 10:1
>> in fact. So all this focus on 'n' years of this and that is really
>> pointless.
>
>... however it hardly matters much *what* in particular the experience is
>in, it's all software.

That's right, and Ian is right in anothe respect - what does four years
experiance of - say - XML mean? In my last contract, which lasted on and off
for a couple of years, the IDE was Delphi, the dtabase was Oracle, and I was
using XML,XSLT, HTML,CSS and Javascript. The support tools were Toad and
Photoshop and no doubt various others. I'm not an expert in any of those really,
except Delphi, but all the rest I can make work to a more than acceptable level.

Question is, do I have "2 years experience" in all of them :-)

Now I'm writing stuff in C# against a MySQL database with XML, da da da ...
no one'll give me a job though - but that's coz I'm sixty - but hey, I think I
just came up with a killer idea :-)
--
Jim
the polymoth
.

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