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Job here at USC

Submitted by vidal on Mon, 2007-04-23 11:31.
  • Full time position
  • 37 ½ hours per week
  • Funded by a grant
    • Requires Java experience
  • Requires knowledge of data bases
  • Requires knowledge of struts
  • Requires knowledge of hibernate
  • Job starts around May 1, 2007
  • Job listed on the web site, ID #042560

If you are interested in this position, please contact Randy Shelley @ 7-8313 or go to the website for additional requirements.

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How to make sure you don't find candidate.

Submitted by vidal on Mon, 2007-04-23 11:39.

This job post is an excellent example of how not to advertise a job opening. The employer requires knowledge of struts (one is left of induce that he means Apache struts) and hibernate (whatever that refers to). By requiring that applicants know struts he is limiting himself to an extremely small number of possible applicants. Any competent Java programmer, let alone one that has done Java Servlet programming, can learn the basics of struts in a day and become proficient by the end of the week.

My guess is that what the employer meant to say was that they will be working with struts and, thus, preference will be given to those with experience using that library. Personally, I would give preference to someone who really knows how to program regardless of what language or libraries they have used in the past. Libraries and new technologies can be learned in a day, good programming abilities take years to learn.

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