[BNM] Freelance Web and Flash Programmers Needed

[Hendrik Mans]

On 1 Mar 2008, at 20:01, Paul Silver wrote:

> 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.


Sorry for the late reply -- was travelling.

I agree with what you're saying. However, what bothered me about the  
form wasn't the mere absence of Ruby et al (or the sick days etc.  
questions), but how -- in my eyes -- it simply doesn't *work* as a  
"guide for the first stage" (quoting Mat).

The biggest offender IMO is how "zero skill" equals to "never heard of  
it", which of course makes you select the next better option for all  
the stuff you have heard of, but never worked with. Of course I've  
heard of ActionScript 2 (and 3! :b). On any other form I'd rate myself  
as "no skill whatsoever". Add to that how a skills roster like that is  
easily diluted by different people simply applying different standards  
(what has been discussed here previously).

Of course it's incredibly hard (or even impossible) to translate a  
person's skills into a numerical system, and I've seen far, far worse  
attempts than Cogapp's form (for example, a company once wanted to  
know why I thought my HTML skills were a "9" and not an "8" -- srsly!)

The sick days, unspent convictions etc. stuff remains, of course,  
quite ludicrous.

Hendrik

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