VB/SQL programmer required

Paddyo

Hi All

A position will be coming available in my company in the next month or 2 due to someone moving to England.

The position is as follows:

Rough title: VB/SQL programmer/analyst
Location : Dublin
Permanent position
Salary ???
Experience required

Brief Description of role:

Programming and support/intallation. of an accounting suite of programs using VB6 - maybe going to VB.NET. We use SQL databases for data, and crystal reports to write our reports. The applicant must have a good understanding of the administration of SQL databases. There will be a high level of customer interaction, both by phone and on site so good customer facing skills are a must.

I dont want to pay huge employment agency fees so if you know of anyone or if you yourself might be interested please reply to this post. If you have any questions please ask.

Paddyo

none

But what's behind those three question marks? 35-40-45K?

Imposter

How much experience are you looking for and ideally do you have a pay scale in mind for that level of experience?

Paddyo

I do have a salary figure in mind but this is negotiable.

I would expect any applicants to tell me of their salary expectations.

What do you think the salary for the position should be?

Im not looking for someone with a particular number of years experience. I just want a person show knows VB6, SQL and Crystal reports. A person with 1 or 2 years experience could be far better that a person with 5 years.


Paddyo

gerryk

^^
true, that... how would you feel about someone like me who has NO professional experience in either VB or Crystal, but is a damn good programmer with 8+ years in the game

MrNuked

I have good VB and SQl, but no knowledge of crystal reports. I did develop reprt templates using Word Basic in Bank of Ireland Life, however. I have 6 months experience in software development, and about 18 months in software testing. As well as this I have been working on my own project to make available as freeware/shareware, which I am developing with VB. I used Oracle and MySQL databases in college projects, including my main final year project. To give you a better impression of my level, I can provide samples of the VB code from my freeware project, as well as Java servlets I wrote to manipulate data in an Oracle database.
I recently finished a contract, and so I would be available to start at your convenience, if you are interested. My salary requirements are negotiable, but I would be extremely happy to secure a permanent development job paying €30K a year.
Let me know if you're interested.

RicardoSmith

MrNuked - would that not have been better in a Private message to Paddyo?

I dunno why people use Crystal reports, seems to give lots of trouble. To be honest you can do same in Word/Excel using a bit of VBA.

MrNuked

MrNuked - would that not have been better in a Private message to Paddyo?

No. Paddyo said:

if you yourself might be interested please reply to this post.

king_of_inismac

mail sent

Paddyo

Thank you for the replies

gerryK

I would ideally prefer someone with professional experience.

MrNuked
When you way you have good VB and SQL - what sort of projects have you worked on with them. Does your SQL extend to MS SQL Server, and an understanding of the workings of SQL Server? To be honest, I wouln't consider college projects to be of much importance in the real world.

Ricardosmith is probably correct. You can email me through my profile settings as some other people have done.

Paddyo

scojones

Originally posted by Paddyo
To be honest, I wouln't consider college projects to be of much importance in the real world.

To be honest, I wouldn't (see how i spelt it correctly?) consider VB of much importance in the _real_ world. Actually forget it, I won't even comment on how idiotic your comment is :rolleyes:

Paddyo

Each to his own sjones!

MrNuked

To be honest, I wouln't consider college projects to be of much importance in the real world.

Well I offered to send you the source code so you could judge their importance -or lack of- for yourself. If you do want to consider someone who has the impudence to suggest he learnt something while in college then I'll email you more details.

RicardoSmith

Originally posted by sjones
To be honest, I wouldn't (see how i spelt it correctly?) consider VB of much importance in the _real_ world. Actually forget it, I won't even comment on how idiotic your comment is :rolleyes:

Are you slagging off VB?

As for the value of college projects. I wouldn't put much store in them either. But if you set a little project for graduate, and he goes off and does it well, and can talk you through the code, then I'd have no problem with that. We have a graduate in here who is very quick off the mark and receptive to ideas that his lack of experience isn't a problem. Then you have apparently experienced programmers who's code/applications seem to need continual maintanence and who don't think of all the run of the mill stuff that they should have in a commerical application. Obviously they haven't learnt from their experience at all. So I say judge everyone on their own merits. I'd give even experienced programmers a test too. Some have abysmally poor development habits

Peace

Originally posted by Paddyo
To be honest, I wouln't consider college projects to be of much importance in the real world.

Why the hell not?

College projects might not be of the scale that industry projects are however they are the basis for learning.

....Infact what sjones said.

Originally posted by sjones
Actually forget it, I won't even comment on how idiotic your comment is

scojones

Originally posted by RicardoSmith
Are you slagging off VB?

Ya think?

Paddyo

Before anyone else gets the hump about my 'idiotic comments' on college projects let me clarify:

College projects are for most part exactly what Peace said - the basis for learning.

They are a very important element of college as they are a measure of what the student has learned and would make up part of the students assessment.

I do accept that some projects which began in college have gone on to be hugely successful in the commercial world.

When employing people over the past few years, I have never considered college projects to be high on my list of priorities in deciding if the applicant is suitable for the position. If a person is coming from college and has passed their exams, in general I would expect that person to be able to program and to be able to further their programming abilities. The first 6 months of employment would be telling.

Just for the record, I am not hung up on employing a programmer who has been through college to learn their trade.

The person must have had some commercial experience.


As for your like or dislike of VB and Crystal reports, can you please create another forum to discuss this.

I hope I have not made any spelling mistakes this time sjones! I WOULDN'T like to upset you more than I already have.:)


Paddyo

gerryk

Originally posted by Paddyo

gerryK

I would ideally prefer someone with professional experience.

Just to clarify, the '8 years in the game' is 8 years professional experience.. god knows how many just messing around.
In my experience, knowledge of any language with similar features lessens the learning curve to practically nil. Not criticising your opinion, you understand, but just pointing out that any programmer worth his salt should be able to have a firm grasp of the fundamentals of VB in a week. I have played around with it.. helped friends learn it and so on, but never got serious with it, perhaps to my detriment

yop

Peace and Sjones are you by any chance students or just out of college