Roger Huffadine

WORCESTER

CTO

Ann makes a fair point about some interviewees having out of date skills, but it isn't just the very experienced recently redundant 50+ group that present these problems.

Too many Universities have Lecturers who are out of date and this shows up in the project work undertaken by graduates. I have been to, supposed, state of the art presentations at Universities only to discover that the projects are 10 years behind the research and development that is happening in the 'real World'.

Finding the talented amongst all the vanilla CVs is a real challenge.

Most 50+ software engineers have been in the industry since punched cards and the really good ones know more about software and computing than most other people on the Planet.

Only a very secure and well balanced manager is going to have the nerve recruit one of these 'scary' veterans.