Subj : Re: SW-design more important than jargon-memory (was: Software Job
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Steve O'Hara-Smith
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 11:02 am

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:20:13 GMT
gds@best.cut.here.com wrote:

> rem642b@Yahoo.Com (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:

> >IMO, and IYO, but not according to all the potential employers nowadays.
> >Do you have any proposal how to enlighten them to convert to our opinion?
> 
> Unfortunately, no.  There is so much competition for jobs now, an
> employer can pretty much set any reasonable criteria and find

	Or even unreasonable criteria such as five years experience of a 
two year old product and still find candidates with it on their CV. OTOH
it's amazing how much the competition for jobs thins down when you start
testing the abilty of the candidates to actually do the job.

> gds at best dot com

	Wow does the best dot com alias into Verio still work ?

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