We've often found that employers want to see a willingness and ability to learn and adapt to new challenges as opposed to a candidate having an encyclopedic kno

We've often found that employers want to see a willingness and ability to learn and adapt to new challenges as opposed to a candidate having an encyclopedic knowledge of coding languages etc. With a competent knowledge of your market you can be taught the rest of your role but if you're unable to articulate your goals and mission to non-technical people you'll often come unstuck when trying to communicate what your doing to others. This seems a lot more important in the hiring process for tech people now as technology is usually the product or output of a company as opposed to being shut up in a basement somewhere just helping a company operate. We've just spoke to an internal IT recruiter about this and he's echoed a lot of the sentiments put across in this thread. Links below if you wanna listen :) http://www.venturi-group.com/podcast/internal-recruitment/ http://www.venturi-group.com/podcast/internal-recruitment/