A ad I once read wanted 10 years(!) of Java experience. I guess they meant to hire only the folks who worked w/ Gosling on Oak !
--- TommCatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Tim Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Have any of you found there to be a large gap between what universities > > produce (ie as graduates) and what employers want ? > > > > Like for example --- one employer wants someone who has experience with > > "Advantage Gen". I have no idea what this is and have never come across it > > before. Maybe some of you might have heard of this ? > > Part of the problem is that the industry is changing so fast that the > universities just can't keep up. It takes some amount of time to prepare a > class and they are aiming at the current needs of industry they are aiming > at a rapidly moving target. > > Another part of the problem is there are so many people in hiring positions > that really don't know what kind of people they need. I have seen job ads > for "GUI Engineers" (whatever that is) and the list of requirements is "two > or more years recent EJB experience." Go to any job search site and glance > through some of the positions. You will see ads looking for Linux admin, > system programming, GUI, EJB, Oracle PL/SQL development, Unix scripting, > HTML, Java, C/C++, TCP/IP networking -- all for the same position! > > And when they say they want two years of Java, that's what they want. A > recent grad with two years total experience, all with Java, will win out > over a twenty year veteran with only one year of Java. Go figure. > > My favorite ad was from Lawrence Livermore Labs. As Dave Barry says, I am > not making this up. It had a list of normal programming skills -- HTML, > Java, some database experience and web site design -- and then came the > clincher: PHD in Particle Physics. > > I'm going back to bed. Somebody wake me when the world turns right side up > again. > > Tomm > > > > ____________________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > ____________________________________________________ ===== Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire� [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Democracies die behind closed doors," - Judge Damon Keith "The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. Government must remain the domain of the general citizenry, not a narrow elite." - Sen. Paul Wellstone __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
