Comments on: Your experience does not match job requirement

By: Indirani

Indirani — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:00:10 +0000

great These websites need to do proper validation, an should been tested many times before it is out in the market

By: Nithin

Nithin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:14:03 +0000

@Nithin : Cool…this looks really odd…Nithin replying to Nithin….anyways what you mentioned looks fine, but the site whose screenshot I have attached has two combo boxes specifically for years and months of experience, so I have to enter 2 years and 3 months and cannot enter 27 months. So I have entered them as it is, so it should have been the site which should have taken care of the rounding problem. But I have noticed that it worked for some other cases when I applied not sure why this particular case gave a warning.

Thanks for this information.

By: Nithin

Nithin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:10:04 +0000

Nithin,

This is the usual English convention. Experience like age and anniversaries are always round numbers and you do not use fractions when expressing them. The proper usage has always been I have 2 months experience or 2 years experience and not 2.5 months experience or 2 years and 3 months experience. Same way like you always use I am 24 years old and not 24 years and 3 months old.
If you want to be very precise about your experience then you need to convert it to a lower “unit”. For EG if you want to express 2 years and 3 months the correct way is to express it as 27 months and not 2.25 years or 2 years and 3 months.

Tenure on the other hand needs to be specific. That is I worked for XYZ for 2 years and 3 months.

I am not an English langauge expert or a professor. But this is what I have gathered from various colleagues and friends.

Cheers,