Let me say a few words about this "open and honest answer", that you might get as an answer from some of the "Seniors".
IF you are guy who has spent a few years, say 4 years, in any IT field , say IT Security, then, it is obvious that you know the stuff, meaning, even if the position you applied do not match your background exactly, for everyone who calls themselves "Seniors", it should be obvious that the candidate has sufficent experience in IT and therefore it is not hard for him/her to switch to something that he/she hasn't worked on before. In fact, it will take the candidate only few days (I guarantee you 1 month Max.) to adapt to the new stuff, new tools etc. Why? because what is broadly called "IT", from an engineering point of view, is nothing complicated at all. The different branches and/or subdivisions are actually not that far from each other at all, it is all related closely. The furthest one being IT Security itself is not that different for an experienced IT guy, all it takes is the ambition and the effort.
However, things are not that smooth when it comes to most of, if not all of engineering fields. For instance, in Electronics engineering (as it being my major), you cannot switch from antenna engineering to embedded or to biomedical engineering, and of course vice versa. In this field, ambition and effort will not be sufficent for you to switch in-between most of the subdiciplinaries of electronics engineering, of course with a few rare exceptions. Why? because having worked or at least having taken advanced courses related to your new field back in the collage is as important as your ambition, even for a non-senior position. Of course, as an hobbist electronics guy, you can still play with all of those sub-diciplinaries but when it comes to work in an R&D enviroment, that will not be relavent.
you might ask, under these circumtances, why do not the Seniors of IT want to see it? Well, in my opinion, they do see it, but due to high demand on the IT positions and highly available number of potential employees, they do not have to, they believe that they can always find exactly what they are looking for, which is usually true. However, this simple and spoiled approach ignores the potential of the candidates from other sub-fields of IT and furthermore it leaves these "Seniors" with candidates who most probably only know this specific field and nothing else.
This approach has many other unpleasent results as well. For instance, if you are an experienced candidate who is recommended by another even more experienced employee and who do not lie in his/her CV (i.e. showing his/her previous experience and knowledge as it is), after getting invited to an interview, obviously it is your right to assume that since you are invited, they might have seen the potential in you, despite not having worked in this exact field. After all, you have years of experience and you have a solid reference. Hence, it should be unlikely to hear something like the title of the article. Well, you do hear the title despite all this and the saddest part is, you do hear that after 3-4 hours of pre-work and after an hour of interview in which you answer all these weird questions which are in fact your private matters, like "Why did you leave your first job?", "and the second job?", "How long are you planning stay in that country?" etc. The questions whose answers I would share only and only with my next employer and which in case asked by the rest, I would show my middle finger as the answer. Now, not only I am not given the position but assuming that getting invited without having relevant experience meant that I have a great chance to get the position, I have exposed my personal info to some "Senior" who I barely know. This is the life...
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