Stumbled upon an intriguing LinkedIn job post. It simply said: "Looking for a #nextjs developer." A sign of changing times in tech hiring. Companies are after specialists, not a laundry list of skills. Exciting shift!
👋 Hello #LinkedInCommunity!
🎉 Exciting News I'm officially #OnTheMarket and open to contract roles! 🎉
🔍 What I'm Looking For:
I'm specifically interested in contract roles that allow me to bring my 12+ years of tech experience to the table, particularly in:
- 📱 React Native
- 💻 React
- 🔮 NextJS
- 🛠 Full-Stack roles with a frontend, AWS focus
🎯 Why Consider Me?
- 💡 Expert in end-to-end solutions
- 👑 Excellence in frontend
- 🤝 Team leadership and collaboration
📬 Let's Connect!
If you know of any contract roles that align with my skill set, I'd be thrilled to hear about them!
💌 DM me or send an email to [email protected]
🙏 Feel free to share this post within your network. Thank you for your support!
#JobSearch#ContractRoles#ReactNative#React#NextJS#FullStack#AWS#TechJobs#NowHiring#OpenForOpportunities
👋 Hello #linkedincommunity !
🎉 Exciting News I'm officially #onthemarket and open to contract roles! 🎉
🔍 What I'm Looking For:
I'm specifically interested in contract roles that allow me to bring my 12+ years of tech experience to the table, particularly in:
- 📱 React Native
- 💻 React
- 🔮 NextJS
- 🛠 Full-Stack roles with a frontend, AWS focus
🎯 Why Consider Me?
- 💡 Expert in end-to-end solutions
- 👑 Excellence in frontend
- 🤝 Team leadership and collaboration
📬 Let's Connect!
If you know of any contract roles that align with my skill set, I'd be thrilled to hear about them!
💌 DM me or send an email to [email protected]
🙏 Feel free to share this post within your network. Thank you for your support!
#jobsearch#contractroles#reactnative#react#nextjs#fullstackdeveloper#aws#techjobs#nowhiring#openforopportunities
👋 Hello #LinkedInCommunity!
🎉 Exciting News I'm officially #OnTheMarket and open to contract roles! 🎉
🔍 What I'm Looking For:
I'm specifically interested in contract roles that allow me to bring my 12+ years of tech experience to the table, particularly in:
- 📱 React Native
- 💻 React
- 🔮 NextJS
- 🛠 Full-Stack roles with a frontend, AWS focus
🎯 Why Consider Me?
- 💡 Expert in end-to-end solutions
- 👑 Excellence in frontend
- 🤝 Team leadership and collaboration
📬 Let's Connect!
If you know of any contract roles that align with my skill set, I'd be thrilled to hear about them!
💌 DM me or send an email to [email protected]
🙏 Feel free to share this post within your network. Thank you for your support!
#JobSearch#ContractRoles#ReactNative#React#NextJS#FullStack#AWS#TechJobs#NowHiring#OpenForOpportunities
There is definitely still a use to hiring for 3+ years of experience in NextJS specifically, even though Pre-v13 is now deprecated. V13 of NextJS is where Vercel really started pushing the App Router as the main way to interact with your website, but many sites (including mine and those I worked on for DLA and NIH) functioned off of the Pages Router, because it was widely accepted by the community that NextJS V13's additions to the App Router set up were not prod ready until V14 dropped. Even then, Page Router is still supported and encouraged for use by Vercel today, and has been more of a standard due to it's ideal MVC structure, which the App Router doesn't as well define on it's own.
None of this means that your experience with using the App Router is worthless, but I disagree that just because a version of a framework is deprecated that the knowledge becomes useless. It's the same stuff, just not supported through security updates anymore. The difference between breaking changes from V12->V14 is like 3 codemod scripts that you can run in like 5 minutes.
What is a little more egregious is that a recruiter is trying to find someone working specifically with a more niche framework, and does find someone with ALMOST enough experience, but denies them because it is not the exact specification. The difference between 2 and 3 years of using any technology actively, like you would with NextJS, is 0. The basics and configuration you need to work with are all going to be instilled in you with every repetition of using the Routing, or optimizing next/Image, or using getServerSideProps, etc. There's not much more to learn unless you're looking for a security expert to know that you need to sometimes manually have HSTS set in your Next.JS config so that HTTPS is forced, but even that would show up in a basic security scan that anyone can figure out.
𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: "I have 2 years working with Next.js".
𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿: "Sorry, we are looking for someone with 3 years of experience in Next.js".
👉 Next.js Release Dates:
Version 14: 5 months ago
Version 13: 1 year and 5 months ago
Version 12: 2 years and 5 months ago (𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗)
Version 11: 2 years and 10 months ago (𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗)
Version 10: 3 years and 5 months ago (𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗)
💡 At this point, asking for 3 years of experience is demanding obsolete knowledge. The up-to-date expertise is only 1 year and 5 months. Anything before is outdated.
🔍 Unless they're seeking maintenance for old apps using outdated versions, which I doubt...
🚀 They might believe 3 years' experience means superior knowledge, but in a framework that evolves rapidly, that's not necessarily true. Let's reconsider our approach to tech hiring and prioritize current skills and adaptability over arbitrary timeframes.
#TechHiring#ExperienceMatters#NextJS#SoftwareDevelopment
👋 Hello #LinkedInCommunity!
🎉 Exciting News I'm officially #OnTheMarket and open to contract roles! 🎉
🔍 What I'm Looking For:
I'm specifically interested in contract roles that allow me to bring my 12+ years of tech experience to the table, particularly in:
- 📱 React Native
- 💻 React
- 🔮 NextJS
- 🛠 Full-Stack roles with a frontend, AWS focus
🎯 Why Consider Me?
- 💡 Expert in end-to-end solutions
- 👑 Excellence in frontend
- 🤝 Team leadership and collaboration
📬 Let's Connect!
If you know of any contract roles that align with my skill set, I'd be thrilled to hear about them!
💌 DM me or send an email to [email protected]
🙏 Feel free to share this post within your network. Thank you for your support!
#JobSearch#ContractRoles#ReactNative#React#NextJS#FullStack#AWS#TechJobs#NowHiring#OpenForOpportunities
👋 Hello #LinkedInCommunity!
🎉 Exciting News I'm officially #OnTheMarket and open to contract roles! 🎉
🔍 What I'm Looking For:
I'm specifically interested in contract roles that allow me to bring my 12+ years of tech experience to the table, particularly in:
- 📱 React Native
- 💻 React
- 🔮 NextJS
- 🛠 Full-Stack roles with a frontend, AWS focus
🎯 Why Consider Me?
- 💡 Expert in end-to-end solutions
- 👑 Excellence in frontend
- 🤝 Team leadership and collaboration
📬 Let's Connect!
If you know of any contract roles that align with my skill set, I'd be thrilled to hear about them!
💌 DM me or send an email to [email protected]
🙏 Feel free to share this post within your network. Thank you for your support!
#JobSearch#ContractRoles#ReactNative#React#NextJS#FullStack#AWS#TechJobs#NowHiring#OpenForOpportunities
𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: "I have 2 years working with Next.js".
𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿: "Sorry, we are looking for someone with 3 years of experience in Next.js".
👉 Next.js Release Dates:
Version 14: 5 months ago
Version 13: 1 year and 5 months ago
Version 12: 2 years and 5 months ago (𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗)
Version 11: 2 years and 10 months ago (𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗)
Version 10: 3 years and 5 months ago (𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗗)
💡 At this point, asking for 3 years of experience is demanding obsolete knowledge. The up-to-date expertise is only 1 year and 5 months. Anything before is outdated.
🔍 Unless they're seeking maintenance for old apps using outdated versions, which I doubt...
🚀 They might believe 3 years' experience means superior knowledge, but in a framework that evolves rapidly, that's not necessarily true. Let's reconsider our approach to tech hiring and prioritize current skills and adaptability over arbitrary timeframes.
#TechHiring#ExperienceMatters#NextJS#SoftwareDevelopment