How do I explain to HR that my work experience is relevant even if it doesn't match the keywords in the job description?
- by Dmitri
I am looking at a job with a great company and in a field that I really want to be in. Unfortunalty, what they want is someone with "experience with ASP (VB), T-SQL in a production environment."
But I've never done anything except with FOSS tools: C, Ruby(straight and RoR), Perl, MySQL, et c. I'm thinking that I could probably pick up VB without much trouble (I took a class that used it on college, was impressed at how easy it was to construct Windows UIs, but I've never needed it)
Is there any way that I can demonstrate that my experience is similar? What would equivalent experience be in the FOSS world?