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> From: Invisible [mailto:voi### [at] devnull]
> The company I just applied to designs things (so, they want people
with
> experience with VHDL or Verilog, people who know how to operate
> osciliscopes and test meters, people familiar with power optimisation
> techniques, etc.) They write device drivers for their stuff (so, they
> want C programmers familiar with kernel-level programming for Linux,
> Windows, and real-time OSes). They also do a lot of graphics work (so
> they want experienced graphics experts).
> 
> I am none of these things. I feel I could *learn* every one of them,
> given the opportunity. (Well, except kernel-level development. That's
> just crazy talk!) But I won't be getting that opportunity, because "we
> feel that other candidates have a skillset that better matches our
> requirements". (IOW, they found somebody who already knows this stuff,
> so why hire somebody who might be able to learn it?)

I hate to break it to you, but you might have to take an unpaid
internship to get the experience you need to be hired somewhere else.
Only problem is fitting it in your schedule when you already have a job.

...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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