Hi Matthew,
As a currently unemployed
java programmer and holder of a Bachelor of Science in IT/Software Engineering I see dozens and dozens of possible job boards to submit my resume too. Each with their own huge list of terms of use and privacy policies to read and which often link to a companies website that also has its own terms of use and privacy policy to read and conform to at the threat of legal sanctions. Anyway, each posting on these job web-sites has a myriad of skills listed; so many skills that it almost seems like it is impossible for anyone to be an expert in all of them.
My question is how does one become an expert at all the required skills? Skills such as years of experience with Java SE and especially for the business world, Java EE are often seen on job boards. This skills are a requirement in addition to being an 'expert' at HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, a scripting language like Python, Perl, or Ruby, another language like C/C++, and knows something about mobile development in Android (Android SDK - that uses Java) or iOS (Objective-C)? Oh yeah and they also need to know about relational databases and SQL... Also employers often want people with 'people skills' as if getting along with people is some type of strange science.
Does your book answer these seemingly unanswerable questions? What about those questions on job boards or asked by recruiters where they ask you to rate yourself from 1 to 10 on your skills?
Well I hope I win the book. Thanks for reading this and writing a book. I wish it were only 100 pages though... as I have a privacy policy I need to read I am sure.
Regards,
TN(t)
