>
> Likewise, when an IT manager wants to hire a C# programmer, the first
> thing they do is throw away all the CVs that don't say C# on them
> somewhere.
>

No.  Having had to do some serious recruiting before, I can tell you 
that this is not the case.  The IT manager will know that someone who 
has a lot of C, C++ or Java experience will be able to pick up on C# 
rather quickly.  The HR person who receives all the CVs and doesn't know 
the difference between C#, CICS/IMS, and TCP/IP apart from the fact that 
"they're both buzzwords the IT folks use" is the one who will only send 
the ones that have "C#" in them to the IT manager.

My girlfriend in the late 90s was that HR person.  She had to review 
hundreds of CVs every week for the various Y2K projects her employer was 
driving, and she would come home at night with dozens CVs that she would 
put in different piles after going through them for 3-4 seconds each. 
"Blah blah blah DB/2 blah blah Oracle ... ok this one goes in the DBA 
pile", "Blah blah pc support blah blah linux blah blah Solaris blah ... 
This one's for the Unix pile", etc...

I once joked to her that I would pirnt my CV under an assumed named and 
would love to see in which pile i ended up.


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