<font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:35 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arocker@vex.net" target="_blank">arocker@vex.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Knowing enough about these things (CSS, JS, Bootstrap) to be dangerous is<br>
> good enough in a lot of cases.<br>
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With the rate at which the flavour-of-the-month in Web techniques changes,<br>
it's sheer coincidence if one finishes a project with a detailed knowledge<br>
of the tools and processes favoured for the next one.<br>
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Surely, the real skill is knowing how to pick up and learn use new tools,<br>
without having to sit passively in front of an instructor? That's what the<br>
schooling industry claims to teach, and conspicuously doesn't.<br>
Unfortunately, this skill doesn't seem to have a name that a recruiter<br>
will recognise.</blockquote><div><br>I call that skill 'being smart', and its the second criteria I have, just following:<br>'can I understand your speech'. My third most important criteria is 'what is your<br>
previous experience'. But your right... how do you get that past a recruiter?<br><br> <br></div></div>