A Message To All Recruiters…

Get Real!

Enough with the shop­ping list, key­word laden job descriptions:

• Microsoft Win­dows (XP, Server 2003)
• Red­hat Linux, Suse Linux, Debian Linux
• HP-UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix
• HP Open­VMS
• Solaris 9/10
• IBM pSeries LPAR
• VMWare ESX
• IBM Informix dynamic server
• Ver­i­tas Netbackup
• Apache http server
• MySQL. 
• Minor duties for desk­top sup­port of 40+ users
• PABX main­te­nance
• Net­work­ing expe­ri­ence, par­tic­u­larly with Cisco products
• Admin­is­tra­tion of an iSCSI SAN environment

If a sin­gle per­son has all these skills, one of two things will be true:

1. They will be crap at most of them
2. They will be out of your (and your clients) price range