This isn’t true. I have folders with emails each time I’ve been looking for a job since 2008 (2008,2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020). I stayed at my second job from 1999-2008.

A sample of the email from 2008:

> Company in … is looking for a full time .NET developer to start as soon as possible. M leading edge technologies. This is a great opportunity for someone with strong VB.NET skills to come aboard a fabulous company.

Standard developer - minimum 2 years transactional website development experience on the Microsoft platform (don't need content/marketing web developers) Senior developer - minimum 4 years transactional website development experience on the Microsoft platform Experience with .NET 2.0/3.5 platform Experience with VB.NET and ASP.NET Experience with the AJAX framework Experience with writing SQL (Oracle experience preferred) Experience with data access through ADO.NET Must be willing to follow client's code standards and participate in code reviews Java script skills (basic

Nice to have experience

Telerik controls and other 3rd party software experience Database experience with SQL Server and DB2 databases Web farm experience (deployment and troubleshooting)