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Well surely you are in an advantageous position to do something about this? There are adverts on your website which have these minimum requirements on them [1]

Well surely you are in an advantageous position to do something about this? There are adverts on your website which have these minimum requirements on them [1] - why not match against this criteria and pop up a little warning about the supposed illegality of the situation or "This practice is highly detrimental to ..." It seems to me like if any company is in a position to start a trend here, yours is a pretty good place to start. [1] http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2013/3/25/dxi-limited-php-developer-position http://www.hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2013/3/25/dxi-limited-php-d...

Peroni 14y ago
Fair point. We're releasing a bunch of new features in the next few weeks and 'job spec guidelines' are one that we're working on. A reference point for people posting new roles. I'm sure there's more we can do so I'll give it some thought.
- shanelja 14y ago
  How about a points rating system, for instance, the actual experience is a pretty big one, so that would be worth the most, but if the person has less time, but experience with individual parts of the stack they could "earn their application" like such: Object - value experience - 50 CSS3 - 10 Photoshop - 10 Go - 10 And so forth, so instead of it being a blanket ban and saying "it's 2 years experience or feck off" you could be saying "we normally only accept applications with a minimum of two years experience, but make exceptions for talented applications with experience in the following technologies, please tick any which apply. Then you let the company know that while they don't meet the minimum requirements for length of employment, they did score over the points threshold for "alternative" applicants. Just an idea :)
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    The problem with these scales is deciding what is a 10 and what is a 1. I've seen people put these on their CVs , what they tend to do is put the language they are most comfortable with as a 9 and then scale everything else according to that.

Peroni 14y ago

Fair point. We're releasing a bunch of new features in the next few weeks and 'job spec guidelines' are one that we're working on. A reference point for people posting new roles. I'm sure there's more we can do so I'll give it some thought.

shanelja 14y ago
How about a points rating system, for instance, the actual experience is a pretty big one, so that would be worth the most, but if the person has less time, but experience with individual parts of the stack they could "earn their application" like such: Object - value experience - 50 CSS3 - 10 Photoshop - 10 Go - 10 And so forth, so instead of it being a blanket ban and saying "it's 2 years experience or feck off" you could be saying "we normally only accept applications with a minimum of two years experience, but make exceptions for talented applications with experience in the following technologies, please tick any which apply. Then you let the company know that while they don't meet the minimum requirements for length of employment, they did score over the points threshold for "alternative" applicants. Just an idea :)
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  The problem with these scales is deciding what is a 10 and what is a 1. I've seen people put these on their CVs , what they tend to do is put the language they are most comfortable with as a 9 and then scale everything else according to that.