Captain Jack wrote:
> I really just want to know what you've been doing for the last four or five 
> years. If you've been in the industry for 20 years, that's great, but the 
> stuff you were doing then isn't likely to be relevant, and that company is 
> probably out of business anyway. 

I think it depends on what kind of job you're advertising. I wouldn't want 
to work at a job where my experience of 10 years ago isn't relevant. Indeed, 
I've made quite a lot of money in the last 4 years based on what I was doing 
in 1994.

If you say "We have a start-up company building a new and innovative X, but 
don't bother to apply unless you understand Visual Basic and ASP.NET 3.5", 
you're going to fail right there.

If you say "We have a McDonalds, and don't bother to apply unless you've run 
a cash register in a fast-food restaurant before", I'm not going to apply.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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