Peter Theobald wrote: > > Clients feel more comfortable getting a recommendation from someone they know, I >know I do the same. > > I think it's just a matter of too many people going for too few projects on the web >sites and mailing lists. > I still read the list and go through the web boards though :-)
On a related note, after a couple of years of failing to get so much as a second look for any CF jobs, I decided to give up trying. I set out to find any web-related job with a specific employer. I found little on their web-based job listings that interested me, and got no where with the applications I did make. But I was fortunate, through networking, to have a friend meet the recruiter who was looking to fill the job I got last month. Without that chance meeting, I'd still be, umm, doing other things. And they told me that they would have filled the job from within, if they hadn't hired me. I was about to say that recruiters really fail to work the user groups and other software-related clubs for good leads. But I remembered a recruiter in Kansas contacting me through a UG in Tennessee about ten years ago (other software, other times). He hooked me up, and I got the job. The best advice I ever got was to be sure your resume and portfolio are ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_jobs or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
