From: Jens Wille Date: 2008-09-29T22:35:54+09:00 Subject: Re: [JOB] Softwareentwickler/-in, prometheus-Bildarchiv, Universität zu Köln Hi Josef, and Rob! First, thanks, Rob, for supporting posts like mine and for pointing out that ruby-talk has - and should serve - a global audience. Even if that at times means to exclude some (even the majority) of them when addressing a certain sub-group of the community. Josef 'Jupp' Schugt [2008-09-22 17:43]: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:19:45 +0200, Rob Biedenharn > wrote: >> I think this is fine. It had a "[JOB]" tag in the subject, an >> English introductory paragraph, and finally a job description. >> I presume that to be an acceptable candidate for the job, you >> need to know German (at least read it?) and anyone who can't >> wouldn't be wanted. Since I might be tempted to read the whole >> thing if it were in English, I'm actually saved some time by >> the German. > Where precisely are German language skills listed as a job > requirement? As the job should at least be open to all EU > citizens I do not render it a self-evident precondition, either. Well, you're both right in a way. On the one hand, it is required that a successful applicant is fluent in German (in fact, I originally had it in the list of formal requirements, but the person in charge at our university's administration removed it without further explanation). After all, they'd have to live and work in Germany (which is expressed in the job announcement) and I guess that'd be pretty hard without knowing the language. On the other hand, though, we're desperately seeking someone to join our tiny development team to enable us to realize all the ideas we have software-wise. Thus we're tending to be less fixed on formal requirements, language skills included. (Some of you might even notice that this job announcement is a near-duplicate of the one I posted a few weeks ago, only with reduced requirements.) And for more context please see my reply to Robert's post. cheers jens