Are you hiring? (Score 1)

"Too often these days you'll see cluelees recruiters and companies who think that, despite your 10 years in software development, you are unqualified becase you don't posess fad skill X. They don't think for a second that the guy who DOES know X probably knows ONLY X, so in 5 months when..."

I cut, pasted and sent that to my boss. Why is it that people dont understand this. Just because they have a Certificate from a software vendor doesnt mean they can fix anything. If you understand how everything works from the ground up, to a reasonable detail, you should be able to solve anything.


It took you one sentence to say what Ive been trying to say for years.