Ckorik wrote on Mar 7
th, 2014 at 12:35pm:
It's also vogue in the software industry to post job adverts with 30+ years of experience required - for a job paying entry level - mostly so they can then apply for a H1B visa and get someone from India to come take the spot.
Nothing new here....
It's a common joke in Froggy Lands... 20 years ago when I was looking for my first job I was reading job posts that were basically saying the following :
- Engineer from a Grande école with 5 year experience, no more than 30 old.
- PhD with 4 Years experience, no more than 25 years old.
If you get your baccalauréat at 18 ( you're lucky ), you have two years ( Math Sup/Math Spé [ yup that's Superior Math and Special Math... Math are tough ] ), then 3 years Engineering school ( Grande Ecole ).
Add one year of Military Joy along the way and if you're lucky you can hit the restriction... But if for whatever reason you get unlucky ( 4 month Delay for the Military Joy for example, if it's in the middle of the Engineering School, it just FUBAR one full year and catching up is going to be a bitch. ) you will not meet the requirement.
The best one is the PhD though... since it is not possible to meet the age requirement, unless you managed to skip the Military Joy. ( 18+7 to PhD = 25 + 1 year of Military Joy = Over 25 . )
That's when I stopped looking at the Diploma and Age requirements and just answered to job posts that were in my competence domains... sometime HR drones are silly people.