in reply to Re: "Tired of FUD" Followup: Where the Jobs Are
in thread "Tired of FUD" Followup: Where the Jobs Are
Ah, but mechanic ads do come in a number of flavours, not dissimilar to programming:
Mechanic ad | Programming ad |
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must have certificate and 3 years experience repairing motors | must have programming qualification and 3 years practical programming experience |
must have 5 years experience repairing Mercedes and/or BMW motors | must have 5 years experience with Perl and/or Python |
must be licensed to repair jet aircraft engines and have 10 years experience with top-tier airline | must have 10 years experience parallel programming cray supercomputers in Fortran |
Sometimes you want someone with good general skills, sometimes you want specific skills. Anyone remember when seceratary jobs used to specify "WordPerfect skills" or "Microsoft Word skills" - doesn't get much more specific than that!
Note that I'm not saying this is or isn't the right way to recruit, just that it's not unique to our industry.
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Re^3: "Tired of FUD" Followup: Where the Jobs Are
by girarde (Hermit) on Feb 12, 2008 at 22:01 UTC | |
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Feb 19, 2008 at 03:56 UTC |
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