cyril_kearney - 4:32 pm on Apr 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

kvanbeurden,
The seeming endless requirements that are posted in job ads as requirements are often mindboogling.

The New York City metropolitan area has a huge number of unemployed and under-employed developers. Too many Human Resources departments and Placement firms treat this list as an absolute requirement.

A current ad is looking for a developer with 10 years of solid mainframe development hands-on experience using DB2, COBOL and CICS along with 5-7 years of Client Server experience with Oracle, Sybase, Java, JavaBeans and Unix as well as 5 years Visual Basic ASP, SQL Server and NT experience. It also absolute requires 5 years EDI, COM/DCOM and Websphere experience.

That position will stay open until the company becomes desperate and then they'll hire anyone that can steam a mirror.

I recommend that you submit your resume to any employer that you seem reasonable qualified for. The whole employment process is about as scientic as two dogs smelling each others butts.