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Guy emails with a job quite above my skill level, with a number of "must haves" that I don't have, and have never worked with. When I said that I don't know anything about what you've just said other than "I can spell these words," his reply was that the environment offers really great OJT and we can help you improve your skills, and this one guy used that to get some high-level certification! Yeah, I'm sure he just walked in and aced that test with no previous knowledge.

It's really hard to create an analogy for someone that's supposed to be talking to you about technical matters, but the best thing I could come up with was "You can drive a car, with a little OJT you'll be a senior automotive repair tech!"

I've always found that companies that want certain skills and are hiring for projects aren't going to wait around a year while you take classes and learn how to do something new so you can do the job they hired you for, and I'm not willing to pick up and move halfway across the country for a job I know I can't do.

Guy emails with a job quite above my skill level, with a number of "must haves" that I don't have, and have never worked with. When I said that I don't know anything about what you've just said other than "I can spell these words," his reply was that the environment offers really great OJT and we can help you improve your skills, and this one guy used that to get some high-level certification! Yeah, I'm sure he just walked in and aced that test with no previous knowledge. It's really hard to create an analogy for someone that's supposed to be talking to you about technical matters, but the best thing I could come up with was "You can drive a car, with a little OJT you'll be a senior automotive repair tech!" I've always found that companies that want certain skills and are hiring for projects aren't going to wait around a year while you take classes and learn how to do something new so you can do the job they hired you for, and I'm not willing to pick up and move halfway across the country for a job I know I can't do.

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They didn't say they would train me, just that OJT was available. I'm still expected to come in with these skills, except that the recruiter didn't understand the difference between "I barely know what this is" and "I have experience using this that is relevant to your requisition."

I believe in this case that the recruiter is one of the people that constantly call and have no real understanding of how to make sure that my experience matches their keyword.

In this case, the keyword was FPGA. I know what that is, they're a common thing in electronics. Can I write a program for one? No. Is it even on my resume? No.