[BNM] Freelance Web and Flash Programmers Needed

[paul perrin]

I'd pretty much agee with you Paul.

I see the real problem with all self-assesment forms like this is that many
of the people who rate themselves most highly are the least competent. As
while they may have some competency in the technology, they do not have
enough to be competent to assess their ability overall.

i.e. How many people thought they really knew javascript before they even
knew that 'prototype' existed? Similar levels of incompetence exist in most
areas of technology.

I used brainbench www.brainbench.com for a few years (for myself and my
staff at the time), and highly rated their testing
methodology/certifications.

I see their subscription charges look quite reasonable again (ISTR it went a
bit mad at one point).

Paul /)/+)

On 01/03/2008, Paul Silver <paul at tenpastmidnight.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:45:46 +0000, "Hendrik Mans" <hendrik at mans.de>
> said:
> > On 29 Feb 2008, at 15:32, Mat Walker wrote:
> >
> > > - a completed application form
> > > (http://www.cogapp.com/home/CAquestionDyn.html)
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > I do however entirely agree with your omission of Ruby (and anything
> > Ruby related) as well as anything from the realm of agile methodology
> > -- it's all worthless junk that the net has totally not been going
> > crazy over for the last couple of years, and should be irrelevant to
> > your choice in freelancers.
>
> To be fair, if you look at what they do, e.g.
> http://www.cogapp.com/home/web-development.html , the list of technology
> on the form is almost exactly the same as what they've done for clients.
> I imagine they're not asking for Ruby, just like they're not asking for
> ColdFusion, because it's not something they really deal with.
>
> As for agile, isn't that one of the ways you'd sell yourself in your CV?
> It's not like they've said they're deciding just on the results of this
> form.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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