I have gotten one lead in about four or five different attempts over the past few years. The person I got a lead from landed my the contract I am currently working on, which could potentially have work for me and some o f my associates over the next year or so. He also got me a tasty one week consulting gig down in AZ, that will hopefully drum up more work later. Also he is working on a proposal that has some possibility of needing my skills. So really I'm 1 for 5. But that 1 has been very lucrative thus fa r. Also, my mine lang is Java with CF a close 2nd. Java seems to be mor e in demand than just about anything else right now, so one must take tha t into account.
PS: learn some Java while your not working ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 4:12 PM To: CF-Jobs Subject: Re: OT: Anyone had much luck from this list I'm glad someone brought this thread back up. I have gotten many many "nibbles" from this list, but never closed the deal. I've been contact by a half dozen or so people, but it's never turned into work. I'd almost start to question my skills if I didn't line up 3 pretty solid after-work projects for December and January. I'm thinking the current economy will be very friendly to 40-80 hour CF projects- that's what I've seen open up. I think this list would need to be actively marketed more to get more serious employers. As it is, it's closely related to the hugely popular CF-Talk list and therefore connects with more programmers than HR people. . Don John Allred wrote: >Peter Theobald wrote: > >>Clients feel more comfortable getting a recommendation from someone the y know, I know I do the same. >> >>I think it's just a matter of too many people going for too few project s 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.
