[LRUG] [JOBS] Looking for a Ruby developer

[Rory Sinclair]

Hi Scott,

I think the point everyone is trying to make - with varying degrees of subtlety - is that your original ad stipulated a degree in CS, SE or related subject, which Bronwyn and yourself then contradicted.  I think the take-away is to omit that from job ads in future, if you genuinely feel that such a thing isn’t an absolute prerequisite.

To make sure I wasn’t being a Massive Hypocrite, I just checked our own job ads - we stipulate ‘degree educated’, since we prefer people who have been to university, though we don’t require that degree to be in anything specific.  (In fact, our most senior engineer has a degree in Music).  In light of recent discussions, we may remove this stipulation entirely, however, or reword it to make it clear that a degree would be seen as a plus, not a requirement.

Best of luck with the hiring!

Regards  

--  
Rory Sinclair
Head of Technology
ASMALLWORLD


On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 10:18, Scott Matthewman wrote:

> Can I just say that, as Lead Developer here at evvnt, I promise to *never* hold anyone's university qualifications, lack thereof or otherwise, against them should they be awesome enough to come join our team.
>  
> Unless they diss my taste in music. Then the gloves are off. :-)
>  
> Seriously, if anybody's interested and wants to find out a little more about our dev platform and how it's growing in more detail, I had hoped to be at Monday's LRUG meeting. Unfortunately I have a scheduling conflict which means I can't now make it, but I'm accessible both at this email address and at scott at evvnt.com (mailto:scott at evvnt.com) instead.  
>  
> Cheers
>  
> Scott
>  
> Scott Matthewman
> scott at matthewman.net (mailto:scott at matthewman.net)
> matthewman.net (http://matthewman.net)
> Twitter (@scottm) (http://twitter.com/scottm) | Facebook (http://facebook.com/scott.matthewman) | LinkedIn (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/scottmatthewman/)
>  
>  
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Matthew Ford <matt at bitzesty.com (mailto:matt at bitzesty.com)> wrote:
> > > " so I can't say why people, in general, have it as a requirement on job adverts."  
> >  
> > Perhaps you should write your own ads then rather than copying others *cough cough*
> >  
> > -Matt  
> > _______________________________________________
> > Chat mailing list
> > Chat at lists.lrug.org (mailto:Chat at lists.lrug.org)
> > http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org
> >  
>  
> _______________________________________________
> Chat mailing list
> Chat at lists.lrug.org (mailto:Chat at lists.lrug.org)
> http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org
>  
>  


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/attachments/20140606/3ba43806/attachment-0003.html>