Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

RED FLAG!! RED FLAG!! :-) I don't know about US universities, but in SA, I did 2 years before I flunked out, and I learned more in the first three months of work about producing useful solutions than I did in 2 years at varsity. Most of the people I have employed have some kind of theoretical background, and all have them have learned more about solving business problems in a month with my company than they have in N years of academic training. I'm not knocking Universities - the services they provide are essential, and there are some places where a self-trained programmer can't just get in, but you don't learn a lot about real business or "good" programming at varisty. It isn't always possible for everyone to make it to varsity here, either. >The problem is that it is VERY hard to judge somebody's ability >at interview, and references generally say very little about >people these days. A degree qualification shows that someone >has gone through some kind of semi-rigorous education and >evaluation. > >Increasingly the requirement in software development is not how >well you know C++ syntax, but how one can produce real systems >to meet real business problems. Ok, a degree doesn't tell you >too much about this, but at least it tells you that the person >did a course which required different skills and had different >types of assesment. >If you know a better way of assessing someone then just say. Nope. :-) But I do often assess people by their hobbies, oddly enough. I'm not going to tell you how, tho'! :) -- Cheers, Billy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za +27 11 803 2151 p.o. box 3463, rivonia, rsa, 2128 +27 83 250 2324 i'm schizophrenic: my opinions are not those of me -----------------------------------------------------------------------------