How’s the IT Job Market?

[anxvariety]

Wow, I come back and it’s 2 pages long.

I’ve never had trouble getting a job… I’d guess I’ve gone on 8 interviews and gotten 7 jobs, that is until lately.

My last job I got by making a posting on Craigslist writing about all the things I didn’t like about the software industry. So 2 weeks later I got a reply to it… he asked me to come in, they might have a position for me. Once I showed up, the guy who was doing the hiring was like “lets talk money”. After a while he said, “you know it’s less about money and more about liking where you work”… so I started to think this company wasn’t serious. Next, I met with the owner I told him I’d work for minimum wage for 3 months to prove myself, if he gave me a high potential assessment after that 3 months. So he said, no don’t take minimum wage – take $XX,XXX/yr and after 3 months if you’re good we’ll give you $XXX,XXX/yr. After 3 months they were happy to give me the $XXX,XXX pay without a question.

Problem with the positions I’m looking at these days – it seems like alot of them have been burned by folks because they’re asking for technical interviews, code samples etc.. I am never willing to do those before first talking to the place to see what they’re about. One place wanted me to send code from a project I worked on… I thought they’d respect the fact that I said I needed permission before sending code, but they were just rude about it.

We’ll see how the search goes this new year.

Thanks for all the tips and insights.

[Scarlett]

[quote=eclipxe]
As far as skills that I’ve seen that are in demand – I screen resumes for new hires and we can’t find many decent engineers with experience in the following areas:
(…)
2. Advanced Perl skills – lots of legacy web applications need to be maintained and are written in Perl. extensive CPAN knowledge is a requirement
(…)
There are 7 skillsets that I’ve tracked over the last year that either have openings locally (San Diego or Orange County) or I have actively tried to hire for. If you possessed those skills you’d have a 6 figure job instantly, despite your age.[/quote]

Eclipxe, if you don’t mind, do you know about open positions in SD for advanced Perl skills?(add to that experience in Unix/Linux, CGI, HTML, SQL/Oracle, bioinformatics – so biotech positions would be preferable)? I’d be very interested.

Thanks a lot,
Scarlett

[Scarlett]

[quote=eclipxe]
As far as skills that I’ve seen that are in demand – I screen resumes for new hires and we can’t find many decent engineers with experience in the following areas:
(…)
2. Advanced Perl skills – lots of legacy web applications need to be maintained and are written in Perl. extensive CPAN knowledge is a requirement
(…)
There are 7 skillsets that I’ve tracked over the last year that either have openings locally (San Diego or Orange County) or I have actively tried to hire for. If you possessed those skills you’d have a 6 figure job instantly, despite your age.[/quote]

Eclipxe, if you don’t mind, do you know about open positions in SD for advanced Perl skills?(add to that experience in Unix/Linux, CGI, HTML, SQL/Oracle, bioinformatics – so biotech positions would be preferable)? I’d be very interested.

Thanks a lot,
Scarlett

[Scarlett]

[quote=eclipxe]
As far as skills that I’ve seen that are in demand – I screen resumes for new hires and we can’t find many decent engineers with experience in the following areas:
(…)
2. Advanced Perl skills – lots of legacy web applications need to be maintained and are written in Perl. extensive CPAN knowledge is a requirement
(…)
There are 7 skillsets that I’ve tracked over the last year that either have openings locally (San Diego or Orange County) or I have actively tried to hire for. If you possessed those skills you’d have a 6 figure job instantly, despite your age.[/quote]

Eclipxe, if you don’t mind, do you know about open positions in SD for advanced Perl skills?(add to that experience in Unix/Linux, CGI, HTML, SQL/Oracle, bioinformatics – so biotech positions would be preferable)? I’d be very interested.

Thanks a lot,
Scarlett

[Scarlett]

[quote=eclipxe]
As far as skills that I’ve seen that are in demand – I screen resumes for new hires and we can’t find many decent engineers with experience in the following areas:
(…)
2. Advanced Perl skills – lots of legacy web applications need to be maintained and are written in Perl. extensive CPAN knowledge is a requirement
(…)
There are 7 skillsets that I’ve tracked over the last year that either have openings locally (San Diego or Orange County) or I have actively tried to hire for. If you possessed those skills you’d have a 6 figure job instantly, despite your age.[/quote]

Eclipxe, if you don’t mind, do you know about open positions in SD for advanced Perl skills?(add to that experience in Unix/Linux, CGI, HTML, SQL/Oracle, bioinformatics – so biotech positions would be preferable)? I’d be very interested.

Thanks a lot,
Scarlett

[Scarlett]

[quote=eclipxe]
As far as skills that I’ve seen that are in demand – I screen resumes for new hires and we can’t find many decent engineers with experience in the following areas:
(…)
2. Advanced Perl skills – lots of legacy web applications need to be maintained and are written in Perl. extensive CPAN knowledge is a requirement
(…)
There are 7 skillsets that I’ve tracked over the last year that either have openings locally (San Diego or Orange County) or I have actively tried to hire for. If you possessed those skills you’d have a 6 figure job instantly, despite your age.[/quote]

Eclipxe, if you don’t mind, do you know about open positions in SD for advanced Perl skills?(add to that experience in Unix/Linux, CGI, HTML, SQL/Oracle, bioinformatics – so biotech positions would be preferable)? I’d be very interested.

Thanks a lot,
Scarlett

[fun4vnay2]

Well, the big hint is already there: largest telecom company in SDiego. My division is looking for middleware/j2ee infrastructure engineer.

[fun4vnay2]

Well, the big hint is already there: largest telecom company in SDiego. My division is looking for middleware/j2ee infrastructure engineer.

[fun4vnay2]

Well, the big hint is already there: largest telecom company in SDiego. My division is looking for middleware/j2ee infrastructure engineer.

[fun4vnay2]

Well, the big hint is already there: largest telecom company in SDiego. My division is looking for middleware/j2ee infrastructure engineer.

[fun4vnay2]

Well, the big hint is already there: largest telecom company in SDiego. My division is looking for middleware/j2ee infrastructure engineer.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

No worries FLU. I would have been irritated by the above as well.

My company used a recruiting company until recently, when we boosted our HR and now hire internal from within house.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

No worries FLU. I would have been irritated by the above as well.

My company used a recruiting company until recently, when we boosted our HR and now hire internal from within house.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

No worries FLU. I would have been irritated by the above as well.

My company used a recruiting company until recently, when we boosted our HR and now hire internal from within house.

[LAAFTERHOURS]

No worries FLU. I would have been irritated by the above as well.

My company used a recruiting company until recently, when we boosted our HR and now hire internal from within house.

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