On 5/25/07, Cutter (CFRelated) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Title changed to protect the search engines;) > I also agree that someone doesn't have an understanding of the > ColdFusion job market. I recently had updated my resume on some of the > job sites, and received literally hundreds of opportunities: > > http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2007/4/17/The-Current-ColdFusion-Job-Market
I have a pretty good idea of the mid-Atlantic region, having dealt with finding/hiring/vetting CF folks for a couple of clients over the past two years. I agree, it's hard to find a good one so we responded to just about anyone who sent in a resume with CF on it. The percentage of resumes than were worth a call was barely 20% and the number of qualified candidates was more like <5%. If I were a recruiter, I'd desperately contact any new person with CF on their resume to fill the pool of open slots. Personally, I think there's a pool of open CF jobs that's bigger than the qualified candidates, so from that perspective it's a programmer's market which is good for any of us with ColdFusion skills. But from a more absolute perspective, as far as total number of job postings (Tiobe for instance is a proxy for that) go, there's a fairly small pool of CF jobs on the *absolute* scale. Of course there was a very small number of jobs for Ruby programmers a year ago :) At least there's no doubting the passion of the ColdFusion community :) -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279240 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
