Thats a fair list of key skills!
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The strange thing is how they list a dozen key skills twice, either side of listing most of them again, then finish off with: "Key skills c# .net, ability to understand Cobol syntax."
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"Ok so you have good C#,ASP.NET,ASP,COBOL,C++,Java ,PHP,VBScript ,JavaScript ,SQL Server ,Oracle ,Agile ,SSADM and RAD" skills, however no Perl experience, im sorry you're not what we're looking for.Comment
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basket weaving is key..."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Wow, thanks for the heads-up. I may apply for that one, as I have most of them and have been mugging up and practicing C#
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It was if you were looking for enough easy proficiency badges for your First Class!Originally posted by scooterscotGod made men. Sam Colt made them equal.Comment
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Obviously written by someone whith no concept of key skills: just extract any and all keywords vaguely related to the work, and ask for them all.
FFS nobody apply for this at 280 per day, please, or they'll think that's all it's worth.Last edited by Contractor UK; 18 September 2019, 16:39.God made men. Sam Colt made them equal.Comment
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The government should arrange an amnesty day where it is legal to kill agency staff who write these ads.
Thy should have said Jack of all trades, master of none.Comment
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A team of 4 (which is what they want) could cover that pretty easily.Comment
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What they really want, I suspect, is a C# programmer with some knowledge of ASP.net, who has seen a COBOL conversion project before.Originally posted by thunderlizard
Such a person, with a few years' experience, will in any case probably have clapped eyes on some SQL, and have done some kind of scripting, and probably used source control in some form. The existing team will get him up to speed on version control on this site; it is irrelevant precisely which RDBMS he saw SQL on; and if he doesn't know any kind of scripting language, they will re-allocate the work among the other guys until he picks up one of them.
If the project actually needs read-only understanding of Perl, VBscript, Javascript, Java, and DOS scripting, they will either have a bit of knowledge of each scattered around the team, or one old guru who has seen them all; if it needs to write in all of these, it needs to be re-specified.
That's a 300 a day requirement, that can be filled in short order by someone who can do the job. What they have specified is not.God made men. Sam Colt made them equal.Comment
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