I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I think part of the problem is that job specs that are put out into the world often have unreasonable requirements: asking for 3+ years commercial experience with something when it's not even part of the day-to-day of the job is really common, as is putting down "nice-to-haves" as "essentials".
Agreed! We work really hard with our clients to communicate this to them. We always have a "requirements" section separate from our "nice-to-haves" because they really aren't deal breakers!
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I think part of the problem is that job specs that are put out into the world often have unreasonable requirements: asking for 3+ years commercial experience with something when it's not even part of the day-to-day of the job is really common, as is putting down "nice-to-haves" as "essentials".
Agreed! We work really hard with our clients to communicate this to them. We always have a "requirements" section separate from our "nice-to-haves" because they really aren't deal breakers!