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I have encountered prospective clients for whom English is a second language and have been asked to outline my "relative" experience. I took the question to be regarding relevant experience. Since my background includes civil engineering and software development for government and manufacturing industries, I have a lot to draw from. A word of advice... do your homework and find out as much about the company as you can. This will help focus your sales pitch.
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"How often do you visit your Grandmother? Your Parents? Aunts and uncles?"
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"I did not have any experience with my relatives, I mean, this is disgusting".
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I was going to reply, but I decided not to on the grounds of good taste. 
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...and on advice from your lawyer?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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His lawyer is his uncle.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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..and he is his own grandmother?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Wow, a bit early for the new year's resolutions, ain't it ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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English is not my First language.
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Not mine neither, and anyway, no offense meant.
King Fisher, please meet the Lounge. The Lounge, please met King Fisher (and use your usual subversion on him).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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you teasing me Again 
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I'm wondering if the interviewer actually slip of tongue and said "relative" experience and one gives this exact answer, what would the interviewer think? Only some every good listeners would catch such exact meaning differences.
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Had similar questions myself generally from HR, non-techie types. I would have though the employer question was related to Working for a company you often don't end up doing doing what you start. For instance I ended up as the Test department for one company when there a lack of testing, I joined as a Software engineer. So it might be that you have 10 years software development in a variety of languages, they want to know long you have coded in a particular language. All I can think!
Sorry was typing the reply before anyone else had replied got distracted and lost the plot!
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Thank you for you kind response. A bit Confused. I have 2 years of Experience in Software Development.i don't have any other Experience in programming so my Tot exp and Rel exp are same? 
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Depends on whether your Total Experience is actually Relevant.
If your experience is all VB 6 in Console apps for the Metals Recycling Industry, and the new job is all C# / HTML5 for Websites in the House Rental market, then no - it's not relevant at all! 
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Thank you its Clear
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Sorry missed your reply but I meant what Griff said. Yeah I have been asked in an interview if I had 5 years experience of a variety of the MSP430 that had only been released for 2 years. The correct answer is not to tell them they are being stupid...could go on but.
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Currently I'm working in Asp.net Webforms(2 Years) and MVC (6 months) my new job in MVC so What would be my Relevant Experience ? 6 Months?
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I'd certainly focus on the MVC, but mention the Webforms.
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So i have to mention that separately. thank you
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Again sorry, got distracted but I agree with Griff, one thing to be careful of is saying you have done X for Y long, only say you have done X for Y amount of time if you have try not to over sell yourself despite what agents say! 
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One important skill in interviewing is how you answer questions. The question they asked for is a number, but when you answer you should not normally give a short direct answer, but instead give an explained answer. Here's what I mean - if they ask how much relevant experience you have, the direct answer is, "6 months". However, an answer that would put you in much better standing with the interviewer(s) would be something like, "I have been a developing for 2 years now - mostly Web Forms at first, but I've been doing MVC for the last 6 months."
Note: You don't want to completely turn a difficult question on it's head and answer something completely different like some people might say - that will only piss the interviewer off. But many times (especially in a technical interview) the interviewers aren't a lot better at interviewing candidates than the candidates are at interviewing, and you can help them out by providing more information than they technically asked for.
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Thank you ..very useful information for me 
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As I understand it total experience means how long you ever worked in one area. Like IT. Your relevant experience is on a smaller area. For instance how long do worked on Mobile Development.
The context is important.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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