you are defiantly not alone.. Im 3 months near my end-of-severance joys.
Ive been firing out resumes to every thing I can find whether I am
qualified or not (IT only of course..no burger king here :(  ) and have
managed to get 1 inerview in 2 months.. uGh..

Ive found recruiters to be dman near worthless even when you are a
'special recommended kinda guy'

*shrug*

Im also looking at a huge paycut.. so far I cant seem to find a job that
nwats a unix admin for over 40k it seems...

As a matter of fact, I saw a job posting for a company not to long ago
that required a CCIE, Sun sol. certs, MCSE or equivilant and 5 years unix
experience for 45k/year..


what the hell kind of superman is going to take 45k?!

:(

Troy


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, George Toft wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> Count yourself lucky - I got 4 days.
>
> I've seen several jobs for C/Unix programmers here in the valley.
> Some of them just posted today on dice.  Keep in mind, you will
> be one of 800 (no kidding) resumes that recruiter gets.
>
> I discovered the best way to get a job with a recruiter today
> is to get on their good side (human networking) so when a job
> comes open, they call you before it gets posted.  When they
> get a job order, they keep it internal before they post it, so
> it pays to get in with them.
>
> Right now, recruiters are about as productive in terms of getting
> interviews as want ads in the AZ Republic - pretty slim.  I've
> had the best luck with Government/Educational entities.  I'm
> preparing a list of AZ Gov't web sites for job searching.  It
> is posted at http://georgetoft.com/employment/ and will change
> as I fill it in.
>
> Prepare for a pay cut, too.  The jobs that a year ago were paying
> $90K are going for $50-60K now.  I just applied for a job that
> pays $20/hr.  Ouch!  I just interviewed for a Senior FreeBSD/Linux
> admin job that pays $45-55K.  Double Ouch!
>
> Get started now.  Everyone techie that I know (save one) that
> worked for the Blue Box Credit Card that was laid off still
> have not found work - one was laid off in February.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> George
>
>
>
> "Furmanek, Greg" wrote:
> >
> > I just found out that I have 6 months to find myself
> > a new job, so....
> >
> > If anyone is interested in a C/C++/Java/Python/Perl/PHP/VB/.....
> > programmer with 4 years experience on Solaris/Linux/Windows
> > let me know.
> >
> > Resume available on request.
> >
> > Greg
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