On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Denny Esterline wro= te: > It's attracted many competent "consultant" types that want to work > remotely, but due to various corporate concerns this is an absolute non > starter. That seems strait forward to correct, a blurb about "Full time, = in > office position. Relocation to Tucson, AZ required" should help. > > It's attracted a surprising number of PhDs with zero practical experience > at this level. Thesis work in optimizing an image processing algorithm > within Linux on ARM9 hardware is not relevant here. And because they have= a > PhD they want 2-3 times our planned pay structure. Not sure how to fix > that. > > The other group is complete script kiddies that > think because they once clicked the "view/source" option on their browser > and can identify at least two html tags that qualifies them for an embedd= ed > programming job. They're easy enough to toss in the round file but it's > another symptom that I've wrote this ad incorrectly. A few thoughts: 1. There are (always) people looking for jobs, and it should be easy enough to ignore unqualified applicants. 2. The phrase "Embedded Programming" could mean anything from writing 10F code to debounce a button, to writing interface code on a high performance quad DSP VME SBC. I've done both, but someone with 2 years experience might not know the difference. 3. Maybe the PhD likes your location and the proposed project. Maybe they have the skills to do something different. 4. I'm skeptical that a realistic candidate is asking 2-3 times what an engineer who does this work would actually get, unless you're trying to pay much too low a salary. Which means literally: 5. If nobody is biting, you're not offering enough. You want a Microchip expert who knows control systems, mechatronics, C++ application development. Are you offering 90k+? --=20 Martin K. (Don't take my tone the wrong way, I'm just offering advice.) --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .