<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Hi Scott,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck with the hiring!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div></div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Rory Sinclair<br></div><div>Head of Technology</div><div>ASMALLWORLD</div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 10:18, Scott Matthewman wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>Unless they diss my taste in music. Then the gloves are off. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="mailto:scott@evvnt.com">scott@evvnt.com</a> instead.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Scott Matthewman</b><div><a href="mailto:scott@matthewman.net" target="_blank">scott@matthewman.net</a></div>
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<div><br></div></div></div><br><div>On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Matthew Ford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@bitzesty.com" target="_blank">matt@bitzesty.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">> " so I can't say why people, in general, have it as a requirement on job adverts." </span><br><div>
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</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Perhaps you should write your own ads then rather than copying others *cough cough*</span></div><div><br></div><div>-Matt</div>
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