Interviewers can be this anaX?

Question

I was at an IT job interview, and the interviewers kept asking me "experience questions". They didn't depart from questions about experience. They did not ask any other kind of questions.

Well, what left me feeling ridiculed were:
1) Interviewer: Do you have experience in this and that?
Me: Yes, I have use that skill in such and such project in my previous job.
Interviewer: HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU'VE DONE THAT?
Me: Well, it was probably two years ago.
Interviewer: We're looking for someone who has done it RECENT.
(It turns out that having experience alone was not good enough. It had to be a RECENT EXPERIENCE.)

2) They asked my if I have database administrator experience in Oracle and SQL Server, but I could see that such experience was not needed based what they said during the later part of the interview. After all, I was interviewing for a helpdesk position.

What I want to pass on to others is this. To reiterate, having experience alone is not enough.

It had to be a RECENT experience. Well, I think they were trying to give a excuse to turn me down. Has anyone experienced getting this kind of experience?

I meant, has anyone experienced getting this kind of excuse? If you get this kind of BS excuse, "We're looking for someone who has done this or that RECENT", how do you answer?

Answer 1

There are a lot more applicants than there are jobs, so potential employers can afford to be 'picky' about whom they hire, and want they are looking for. In some cases, experience is sufficient, in some cases, particulary in industries where technology is constantly changing, they want recent experience. Nothing wrong with that.

Answer 2

Since you're in the IT field you know it's changing all the time. Looking for a job is a lot like cold call sales: you have to be ready to hear at lot of "no"s before you hear the "yes." Try not to take it personally. It's a numbers game.