Hi Tim, Usually companies would go to each university to recruite recently graduated students. In this case, they do not expect people to have 2-3 years of experience, though it would be helpful.
In a real job fair or when they post openings on a web site, they are most likely looking for specific skill set and couple of years of working experience (though there might be some exceptions). Thanks, Payam. --- Tim Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanted to pose a question :- > > 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 ? > > And another employer wants someone who has skills > with the "Rational > toolset" . I am not talking about Rational Rose but > about products like :- > TestManager, TeamTest, ClearCase, ClearQuest. > > These are just 2 examples of trying to illustrate > the point that I am > experiencing -- that employers seem to want a whole > lot of "skills" that are > not taught at universities. > > I find this quite concerning. > > Also ofcourse there is the issue that almost all > employers want someone who > already has "2 or 3 years of commercial experience". > > What happens to people who have just come out of > university ? What sort of > job opportunities do they have when employers don't > seem to want to "give > anything" ? ie they want someone who already knows > about these new products > that a freshly graduated person has never heard of > before. > > I don't know if it counts as "commercial experience" > if for example your > university has a final year > project -- which is a "real life" problem with a > real life client who has > come to the university with this problem ? I would > hope that it is. > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > To change your JDJList options, please visit: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > > Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying > ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ 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 ____________________________________________________
