Hi Dave, Dave wrote:
>X....................................................................... > > >I just saw an advert for a job requiring one year of commercial >experience with Ruby On Rail development. The first printed book on >RoR was published in August, barely 6 months ago, so a year of >commercial use is highly improbable - and turned me off the job, to be >honest. > >:-) > > That shows people over there are not that much experienced on RoR! So if you do have good RoR expertise then I believe you _should_ apply for the job if getting a job is important for you, it offers reasonable money and you like RoR. It doesn't matter even if you have 6 months experience or less than what's required because AFAIK RoR 1.0 has released very recently and if you can show your _expertise_ as well as skills in the form of something _concrete_ then you've a very good chance of landing yourself this job. Here _expertise_ is the word for you - not experience. May be you have developed solid expertise/skills in a few months that other competitors have not developed in a year! If you can _demonstrate_ your expertise in your resume (That's where you need good communication skills!) and in a possible interview (if you do drop in your cv and get a call, that is) and what you have written in your cv matches or exceeds what you demo in the interview then there's a very good chance you'll get the job. AFAIK, RoR is Java-based, Java-driven or something like that - so may be your Java background will help if you have some. Further, don't write extra work history/experience as they might ask you to work on those _other_ development platforms as well if you do! and, most likely, you won't be paid for that! Try to write only the _big_ and _impressive_ projects that you did in RoR or things that you think really have weight - that will make your cv concise (too many pages don't get you the job!), more focused and they, most likely, will read it completely. So, do go for it if you think it's good for you and you really have something to show off -- do _not_ apply if you don't have some solid expertise with respect to the competition. -- Best regards, Asif
