>>>>>>Curses! The can forgive no VFP exp. but need eops exp., which I not got. And working from home too! Sweet
>>>>>I've seen this one lurking for a while so they can't be finding an exact match. Why not give it a go. Its Epos not rocket science.
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>>>>Mi's well, eh?
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>>>>I know nowt about epos and assumed it's all bar code reading and stuff. I know nowt about the OS, m/cs, etc. so any pointers, heads-up, etc would be welcome, give me summat to BS with :-)
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>>>I also was about to post a "get it anyway" message<g>. But I'd be totally honest with them that you currently have a lot of vfp but no Epos knowledge - but that you are willing and smart enough to learn. There was a piece about depending too much on finding the candidate with exactly the right experience for a job cutting out the best applicants (those willing *and* able to learn, who can write good SW in any language instead of not having learnt it in the one language they had expiereince with in the last 6 years<g>) - but I haven't bookmarked it. From the general tone I remember it might have been Spolsky, but it rings no clear bell. OTOH Joel has tips on finding the right candidate and as his arguments are often more elegant than mine, so take a read IAC ;-) Offer those arguments fitting to yourself to the prospective employer
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>>Hey! Why don't I throw a few convincing Spolsky and Joels in my application, and see how far it gets past the 1st read! :-)
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>>>good luck
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>>>thomas
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>>Totally my feelings on my ability, but they're so specific with some job reqs now. These don't seem so pinickity as MANY I've seen. Let's hope these recruiters have some of the above sense.
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>>Thanks Tom.
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>Terry
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>Job description seems to have changed a bit now. Foxpro comes above Epos.
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>http://www.jobserve.com/E3E9685121ECF1F53.job

Mmmm, interesting. It's as if the job spec has changed. In fact, apart from the top they don't mention it again - but now "epics" is desirable (whatever that is). I have applied for this, and funnily enough, another in Horsham has just come up, and a (lesser paid, more s/w admin, requiring VFP and SQL, Excel, et al) has cropped up in Brighton. Anothr Anal job in Worthing and that's 4 in the last 3 days, so fingers crossed.