Jul 14, 2020 19:00:00

Jobs with application requirements will be issued if you have 'more than 12 years' experience in the system for 6 years since you were born.

In job hunting, the 'years of experience' of a certain job or skill is an important item, and many job offers actually require years of experience.

The Register reports that there are quite a few cases where such years of experience are required more than 'the number of years since the birth of work or skills'.

IBM job ad calls for 12 years' experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/ibm_kubernetes_experience_job_ad/

Cloud Native Infrastructure Engineer / Architect at IBM | intellijobs.ai
https://intellijobs.ai/job/IBMCloud-Native-Infrastructure-Engineer-Architect-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP-bvJJ6yraexfWOk1nMRKP

The job advertisement issued by IBM on June 27, 2020 was to recruit cloud engineers in India, but the application requirement is 'more than 12 years of experience in managing and operating Kubernetes'. Since Kubernetes is a system released in 2014, it will not be possible in 2020 to have 12 years of experience in managing and operating Kubernetes.

Not limited to IBM, there are other such mistakes. Sebastián Ramírez, who developed the web framework FastAPI , said, 'There was a job offer for more than four years of FastAPI experience, but I couldn't apply because it's only been a year and a half since I released FastAPI. I'm tweeting.

I saw a job post the other day. ????

It required 4+ years of experience in FastAPI. ????

I couldn't apply as I only have 1.5+ years of experience since I created that thing. ????

Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that 'years of experience = skill level'. ♻

— Sebastián Ramírez (@tiangolo) July 11, 2020

There is also a tweet to the effect that 'it is possible if you work overtime' for such an erroneous career requirement.

I just remembered seeing this a couple of days ago ???? this explain everything pic.twitter.com/0sl2vnEho6

— El Habbazi Jalal Eddine (@HabbaziJalal) July 12, 2020

It seems that there is a discrepancy in career not only on the job seeker side but also on the job seeker side. Lynn Boyden , a part-time lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles , interviewed a 28-year-old designer who said he had '17 years of web design experience' in 2012. If the designer's story is true, you've been doing web design since 1995. The WWW (Web) was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, but Boyden said, 'Who is the designer?' '?'

We interviewed a 28yo designer in 2012 who told us he had 17 years experience designing websites. I said, “Tim Berners-Lee doesn't have 17 years experience designing websites.”

“Who's Tim Berners-Lee?” He asked.

So yeah. ????

— Lynn boyden (she / her) (@ lrb23) July 11, 2020

Ramírez commented that it may be time to rethink the idea of 'years of experience = skill level'.