Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths To : comp.programming,comp.software-eng From : Chris Hills Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 05:12 pm In article , Richard Heathfield writes >Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote: > >> The only time an actual company gave me any kind of programming >> aptitude test was in 1974, Four Phase Systems. > >Well, that's a clue that you're probably in your fifties, at least, and >quite possibly your sixties. With a resume that only goes back 5 years... Last time I saw one like that the person concerned learnt computing on courses in an open prison in his 40's and 50's. >> I would be glad to take your test, > >If I have inadvertently suggested that I'm hiring, I apologise. I didn't >think I'd done that. But anyway, just to be 100% clear, I'm not hiring. Oh go on... Gi'us a job..... Gi'us a job.... I can do that! >>> I suspect that this would be a far more effective strategy than >>> relying on the experience people claim on their CVs. >> >> Here in America we use resumes not CVs. You must be in Europe. > >That depends on your definition of "Europe", I guess. :-) I live in >England. Ah... not Europe but part of the Glorious British Empire as delineated by the Blessed Saint Margaret. Fog in channel... continent isolated! -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\ Chris Hills Staffs England /\/\/\/\/ /\/\/ chris@phaedsys.org www.phaedsys.org \/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ .