CHANNELS TV a leading news television broadcasting station in Nigeria has open vacancies for the following Positions:

JOB TITLE: WEB PROGRAMMER/DEVELOPER

Roles

He/She would be responsible for design, development and implementation of short- and long-term solutions through new and existing applications.
He or she reviews IT requirements and processes; codes, tests, debugs and implements software solutions.
Must be able to provide application software development services or technical support in a defined project or existing production system.
Must be able to develop program logic for new applications or analyses and modify logic in existing applications
Leads the creation of program specifications and diagrams, and develops coding logic flowcharts.
Must have experience in coding, testing, debugs, documents, implements and maintains software applications using either .NET or Java/J2EE technologies.
Ability to analyze requirements, and maintain, tests and integrates application components.
Ability to analyze, design, create and implements databases, including data models, logical and physical databases, data dictionaries and schema s, access methods, device allocations, validation checks, organization and security.
Ability to support and implement new applications.
Ensures that system tests are successfully completed and documented and all problems are resolved.
Liaises with software vendors and external technical support on issues such as software upgrades, problems and potential solutions.
Analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems, and devises computer programs, systems and related procedures to process data
Prepare charts and diagrams to assist in problem analysis, and submits recommendations for solution
Ability to debug code functionality while supporting multiple in-production websites.
Design, develop, maintain, support and enhance an existing suite of applications.
Application and technical support to internal users.
Full life cycle development with strong attention to detail with testing
Problem solving and troubleshooting


Educational Qualification:
The candidate should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related degree.

Working Experience: (the impossible part)
Minimum of three years of experience working as an application developer
Experience working with Web technologies, XML and emerging web standards
Web application deployment / maintenance
Full life cycle development including testing (nUnit)
Cross-browser web application development
Knowledge of web portals and database
Must have a strong working knowledge in the following: JavaScript / DOM, HTML, XHTML, PHP, MySQL,CSS, jQuery, MS IIS, C#.NET / Visual Studio and ASP.NET
Must have strong database skills preferably with SQL (T-SQL, Subversion source control and SQL query performance tuning would be a major plus.


Interested candidates and Qualified candidates should send their application letters along with current CVs to jobs@channelstv.com


Responses from PHP NIGERIA (Nigerian Association of PHP web Developers: http://www./169274473187646/permalink/344114602370298/)

1. "Must have a strong working knowledge in the following: JavaScript / DOM, HTML, XHTML, PHP, MySQL,CSS, jQuery, MS IIS, C#.NET / Visual Studio and ASP.NET" lwkmd lol well well

2. Dem don forget to put C++, JAVA, etc........ask them how much dem wan pay....100k P.A........lol

3. 100 what?
You will be hearing around 50-75k.
Plus they'll over load you with their daily news work

4. you guys are vexing oo.... they expect any programmer they see to be like the machine he is programming.... God go save us from all this naija matter.

5. Here in Mauritius you will never see such, infact that ads is for 3 different developer.

6. After mentioning Javascript they now mentioned Jquery.. After mentioning MySQL they mentioned MS IIS. Then Mentioned HTML with outdated XHTML. To cap it all, they freestyled C#.NET on a Visual Studio Levels
ASP.NET and PHP also included.
Applicant must also have a Bsc in Computer Science
with at least 3 years experience
Applicant should be able to work with XML and emerging web standards
Full life cycle development including testing (nUnit)
Then
Must have strong database skills preferably with SQL (T-SQL, Subversion source control and SQL query performance tuning would be a major plus)

No Salary specified
Good luck

7. I think! These people added up all it job descriptions and divided by 10, without considering their needs. Hahahahhahaha!

8. The worst is that its a news company that only needs a web admin that can manage their portal

9. This channels people are a bunch of clowns ... how do they expect a single person to know all that its impossible from my view cos that's a jack of all trade master of non............ for them to have that they at least need nothing less than 5 programmers who are going to work together.....

10. lol..... what they will need im sure is just som1 to help manage their web portal and do little of other stuffs but the fact is that they will look up for job description on like for a particular position and start joining everything together..... dont be surprise that if u apply and get their the IT head if they have will not even know jack of all this shit... thats naija system....

11. The IT head is the one who prepared this shit.
He should be brought out for thorough flogging
#gbam!

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Its their job, its their money, its their requirements. If you don't fit in, pass along and keep looking for what you can fit into OR study hard to fit in.

IMO, most of the comments above seem to be coming from lazy people (#SocialProgrammers).

Minimum of three years of experience working as an application developer
Experience working with Web technologies, XML and emerging web standards
Web application deployment / maintenance
Full life cycle development including testing (nUnit)
Cross-browser web application development
Knowledge of web portals and database
Must have a strong working knowledge in the following: JavaScript / DOM, HTML, XHTML, PHP, MySQL,CSS, jQuery, MS IIS, C#.NET / Visual Studio and ASP.NET
Must have strong database skills preferably with SQL (T-SQL, Subversion source control and SQL query performance tuning would be a major plus.

The point is, they dont know what they want.

Dual Core: Its their job, its their money, its their requirements. If you don't fit in, pass along and keep looking for what you can fit into OR study hard to fit in.

IMO, most of the comments above seem to be coming from lazy people (#SocialProgrammers).

They did not say the pay is attractive, besides, if they see anyone who has all those proficiency, I bet the will not be able pay him.

Dual Core: Its their job, its their money, its their requirements. If you don't fit in, pass along and keep looking for what you can fit into OR study hard to fit in.

IMO, most of the comments above seem to be coming from lazy people (#SocialProgrammers).

Seem you don't get it.
More like Julius Berger trying to hire an engineer who has a background in civil engineering, electronics, architecture and mechanical engineering all at the same time. It's simply not possible though a well trained engineer can have an idea of all this but can't be a professional in all aspects.
Same things applies in programming, you're a pro in an aspect but have a general idea of the rest.

They don't expect you to do all that in your job specifications. That person who wrote those requirements simply don't have an idea of what he/she is talking about.

1 of 2 things are at play here. Either:
1) They have seen what happened at that company where thousands of people showed up for a job and want people to weed themselves out OR
2) The person who came up with the ad is in Human Resources and heard, "we need a programmer" and not being technical, probably googled and copied/pasted what you see there.

From a naija factor perspective, I would go with #1. From a personal experience perspective, I would go with #2: Back in 2000, I remember a job ad asking for 10 years of experience in ASP 1.0. The problem with the ad was that ASP was barely a year old at the time. Obviously, a technical person wasn't in responsible for creating that ad

Is the position still open ?

Must have a strong working knowledge in the following: JavaScript / DOM, HTML, XHTML, PHP, MySQL,CSS, jQuery, MS IIS, C#, .NET / Visual Studio and ASP.NET

2. Dem don forget to put C++, JAVA, etc........ask them how much dem wan pay....100k P.A........lol

Channels is definitely not asking for too much. All they need is a multidimensional array of designer, developer, networking guru and general IT consultant assigned to a single variable. That variable is what(who) they want. I pray they find one

All that long advert just to get some dude and place him in a tiny cubicle with a computer to post news items and video links. With reporters and editors bringing their laptops to him from time to time, to help them run antivirus software and fix the occasional windows, active-x alerts.

I cannot see anything impossible with the description!

^^^^^

Its not even about whether possible or not. It seems the people are clueless and dont really understand what they want.

Is their website based on all the above? Are they setting up another business arm to go into web development for clients? Like some have pointed out, someone just wanted to bamboozle intending applicants.

copy and paste requirements, being HR isn't enuff, you need to know what skills you need, i made the statement there, that in Mauritius that's for 2 Developers because having one Developer overseeing such Project is risky,they separate Developers and Database Engineers(if that's correct). the later can be added advantage. check linkedIn for Job descriptions and you will see a saner position.

^^^ But u sabi naija now. we think say we dey smart. We wan hire one 10K "webmaster" to do everything, from design to database to content then we wonder why a majority of the work we produce is sub-par.

yawa-ti-de:
^^^ But u sabi naija now. we think say we dey smart. We wan hire one 10K "webmaster" to do everything, from design to database to content then we wonder why a majority of the work we produce is sub-par.

Exactly

From recent events am privy to in other organisations,maybe the Hr or IT manager has a candidate to smuggle in,all the jumbled requirement is to discourage prospective applicants.