[Gllug] Jobs Sites and Universities [slightly off-topic]

[Simon Jakesch]

yeah but in general good universities are a good place to start, especially if 
you don't know where to start.

Bernard Peek wrote:
> In message <20040630211652.GC32432 at pigeonhold.com>, Doug Winter 
> <doug at pigeonhold.com> writes
> 
>> On Wed 30 Jun Bernard Peek wrote:
>>
>>> As a jobseeker without a degree I'll make a plea to employers to look
>>> carefully at the brief they give to agencies and to only specify that a
>>> degree is required if it really is necessary, which shouldn't be so for
>>> any except junior jobs.
>>
>>
>> Yep, in a field that moves as quickly as ours degrees are largely
>> meaningless for a lot of jobs.  The experience of going to university is
>> valuable, but the actual qualification isn't.  I still look out for
>> people without degrees, or with thirds.  They are often the ones who'd
>> spent all their time spodding when they should have been working, and so
>> are much better hires :)
> 
> 
> The best developers I ever hired both failed their degrees.
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