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Anyone got experience of Legacy Systems?

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    Anyone got experience of Legacy Systems?

    BUSINESS ANALYST/PROJECT MANAGER/LEGACY SYSTEMS/MANCHESTER - A large telecommunications company based in Manchester are urgently looking for an experienced Business Analyst to come on board for a 6 month extendable contract. The company are currently working on Legacy Systems, and therefore require a candidate with extensive experience on them, with over 2 years being sufficient.
    FFS!
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    #2
    I prefer "Must have experience of Bespoke"

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      #3
      Originally posted by Alf W View Post
      FFS!
      I get really annoyed when people come on here moaning that Pimps have no technical experience and just search for Keywords.....

      Shirley you have "Legacy Systems" in your cv!!!!

      If you phone up be sure to tell them its Legacy System V1.2

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        #4
        ****tards. Not a ******* clue.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Drewster View Post
          I get really annoyed when people come on here moaning that Pimps have no technical experience and just search for Keywords.....

          Shirley you have "Legacy Systems" in your cv!!!!

          If you phone up be sure to tell them its Legacy System V1.2
          But I've only ever worked on legacy systems Mark 1 !
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            #6
            I once got asked if I had any experience of CCS. I usually keep well clear of that nonsense.

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              #7
              I saw my agency re-written CV saying "microsoft sea"
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                #8
                My most favourite job ad was about ten-ish years ago.

                There was a road-side poster opposite the bus stop advertising the brand new IBM AS/400.

                I was reading Computing or Computer Weekly at the bus stop. It had a job ad for someone with "2 years IBM AS/400 experience".
                My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                  #9
                  I used to regularly get “I see you’ve got Visual C++, but have you got any straight C++?”

                  Long, long ago I used to have resourcers giving me grief about the amount of experience on each model of DEC VAX I had ever programmed on, “sorry, my client is looking for more experience of 780’s; your experience of 750’s and 782’s won’t count.”
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                    #10
                    I quite often get them ringing up for IBM mainframe positions and then I ask what operating system, z/VM, z/OS, z/TPF, zLinux or z/VSE. They then mention MVS which hasn't been around for years (mutated into OS/390 and then z/OS) and spend the next 20 minutes giving them a history of mainframe systems. In the end they only wanted a COBOL programmer or DB2 DBA, both of which I'm neither and doesn't even say it in my CV.
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