When David Lean, Peter O'Toole, and Omar Sharif were filming "Lawrence of Arabia" in Yemen in the fifties. They needed to find the perfect camel for Peter O'Toole to ride. There were thousands of camels. And yet they could only assess them one at a time. How to know whether the one they were looking at was going to be the camel, or whether there was an even more lovely specimen around the next sand-dune or tethered at the next oasis.

Now, consider that you are an employer, looking for the perfect junior developer to fill a demanding role and fit into a quirky team. Is the current self-centred, needy, give-me-more-attention Gen-Y nerd that is sitting in front of you with a shaven head, piercings, and a 10 megapixel iPhone, the 'perfect camel' (physical resemblances aside), or is there a better one to be lasooed in the herd milling about in reception?

If you push him too hard, is he going to come back with "Geez guv'nor, a man is not a camel, you know"?

Or perhaps you are a candidate trying to decide between a number of different offers. Each have pro's and con's, none are exactly what you thought that a rock-star like yourself deserved. The employer is sitting across the boardroom table from you now saying that "You are joining the hottest team in the city," and "I'm not happy with product going out the door unless it looks really hot," or "she's a pretty laid back environment and culture that we have here, the developers spend all their time sitting around playing guitars, playing pool and using the free espresso machine." But they all say that, and you don't believe any of them because software development isn't like that anywhere in the world these days!

Does he look like he will turn out to be a camel driver when the heat comes on?

So, as the camels come galloping by (the sound of hooves in the desert) how are you going to get your rope on the nose of the best one, before it disappears into the sandy wastes forever?