I have to do hiring for my company, and one of our team left. Like 'nate' I'm in Seattle too, and when we place an advert in the news-paper we see 200+ applications, we get 20+ year C devs looking for work doing web/php dev work! When looking I'm not so focused on certs...IMHO its all experience that counts. My resume tip: demonstrate increasing skills and responsibility -- that shows you are motivated and can educate yourself.
/B ----- Original Message ----- From: "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:17 Subject: Re: RHCE looking for a job > Ric Tibbetts said: > > > > So far, I've never had to resort to using the phrase "Would you like fries > > with that?" in the course of my work day. But when you need to feed the > > family, don't get too picky when the market is like it is now. > > I haven't either and won't for a while luckily. But even that job market > is in the shitter these days. My sister(21) has lived with me for a year > and a half now, and it took her 2 months of searching to get a GRAVEYARD > shift as a waitress at denny's. And even after she got hired she isn't > full time, pending their expected pickup in business. Once/if business > picks up then she'll get put on full time. > > And even if it wasn't in the shitter, I know people who've been > unemployed for more then 2 years, the bad part is their skills are right > in the middle, they are typically underqualified for half of the > positions or overqualified for the other half. I hear more and more > people saying they're getting responses from employers that they are > overqualified for a certain position. > > seattle may be in the pits, but I suppose it could be worse..the upshot > is I live in the center of a tech heavy district, there's one sysadmin > job I want thats only 1.3 miles from my apartment, though haven't heard > from them in 3 weeks(my last interview came 4 months after I applied > so anything's possible). > > everyone says knowing people helps get jobs..wish that were the case > for me, most of the people I know have been unemployed longer then I > have. Though I know 2 people at a local company which I applied for > 2 sysadmin jobs at on the weekend. Though I don't meet all of their > qualifications(they want lots of SAN experience and big HP9000 experience), > my friends there said they would trade me for 5 of the current > sysadmins in a heartbeat, apparently the folk they have there aren't > so hot :) > > I wish the Business Labor statistics site would update their stats > (www.bls.gov) I am curious what the unemployment rates are for the > various states(last I checked the last data was from 12/2002). > > nate > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
