Kunal, Great question! It really is a function of who is reviewing your resume at the end of the day - If its HR / Recruitment - they will not be able to assess technical skills to the level a tech lead/ manager can, period - If it directly reaches a technical team member (ideally in a leadership capacity), he will be able to sort the wheat from the chaff
However, always be mindful that there is a perceptional component to all of this - and unfortunately the experience gathered in a corporate / professional environment often gets prioritized and treated more seriously (which is not ideal) To get ahead of the queue, ensure that your resume and cover note is presented in a manner that easily highlights your relevant experiences (even if not in corporate employment) in an easily readable/findable format upfront. Also ensure that it ideally gets in the hands of a technical manager as and when possible. Good luck! Best Regards, - Kumar PS: We are actively hiring for various technical roles, right from Developer/Sr Developer to CTO. Look us up at www.mquotient.net Email us at care...@mquotient.net if interested in talking to us On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:16 PM, satyaakam goswami <satyaa...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 6:51 PM, kunal ghosh <kunal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I read a lot of emails in this list and others, posting job offerings. > > They all list, "years of experience" required by a candidate to be > > considered for the job. > > > > But what is the metric to measure this experience. If it indirectly means > , > > "corporate experience" > > ( in django , etc ) does it mean that free and open source developers who > > use these technologies > > in their free time (and not in their day jobs) are NOT experienced ? > > Even though they might have worked with those technologies for a much > > longer > > duration than > > the "experienced" ones ? > > > > looking for comments, suggestions and constructive criticism. > > > > Folks in the corporate world mostly want people with blinders on . so > there > is no metric as such i have seen cases where the hiring manager asks for > requirement to the HR guy, who then starts looking out again by the time it > transaltes to a JD is typically heavily loaded ( means too many keywords ) > than required for the job . > > i have also seen cases where in Hiring manager goes by recommendations from > peers in and out of the company about a candidate. > > there is a third kind where in the Hiring manager takes a call based on an > interview on that day , and considers FOSS experience as a prime > qualification. > > > the third kinds are less and rare but they are growing by the day > > -Satya > fossevents.in > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
