I’ve just read a very interesting article about recruiting software developers in the Guardian, which pretty much mirrors my feelings on the matter. I do a lot of recruitment and have encountered many of the frustrations described.
I’m going to quote from the last paragraph:
To be honest, if someone wrote to me with a nice covering letter and spoke about open source projects that he or she liked, pointed me at a Twitter feed where they were intelligently engaged in the problem domain, and sent me some code that they’d written, they’d be more or less hired at this point. No one wants to see a list of technologies with some random skill level or years experience.
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