[Wolves] Vacancy - Junior PHP Developer

[Peter Cannon]

David Goodwin wrote:

>> 2. Ask for skills in as many disciplines and areas as possible.
> 
> I'm not sure that's unique to the FLOSS world, but it is almost 
> certainly a small business thing - in larger organisations you tend to 
> have employees who are more specialised and hence a job desc will not 
> ask for everything. Perhaps smaller businesses have adopted FLOSS more 
> than larger organisations?

No its not unique and has been going on since time began;

"Centurion required must be able to subjugate tribesman kill enemies with a single
blow. Ideally you will be able to construct crucifixes and paint portraits......"

It just makes me a little sad that given, even today, these skills are still
relatively new the industry has allowed the old tricks and pitfalls to fester into
the FOSS environment.

This goes to the whole core of "Can you make money from OSS" IMO by allowing
employers to get people with exceptional and wide ranging skills effectively on
the cheap when really they should be paying a premium is doing nobody any good at all.

I saw a job a few months back that was offering £18k when it was painfully obvious
they should have been offering £30-£35K even though it was Midlands based.

> In my case, I try and word any job descriptions we might produce to 
> imply that "the following aren't necessary, but would be useful...." 
> which might give the potential employee some idea of what you may be 
> able to provide ... although I've not had to write a job description 
> lately - although there will be one for more of a project manager role 
> sometime (but again, we probably have someone lined up for it).

Its me in't it? You know you'd love to work with me?

Actually I like that idea "Look you don't have to be able to.... but it would be nice"