I missed the beginning of this thread, but my husband recently ran into something related to it....
When his company was hiring a Linux sysadmin, the CIO was surprised at how few resumes he got. Eric called the state unemployment office, and I guess mentioned this outright. It turns out that states track unemployment by job title (who knew?) and that in Minnesota, the unemployment rate for sysadmins is 1%. That is *one percent.* In other words, anyone who is on the market just left her previous position... and won't be idle long. I tried to get my IT Careers author (she who wrote How to Hire a Security Genius (http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/How-to-Hire-a-Security-Genius/ba-p/1380) and Tales From The Crypt of Tech Recruiter Cluelessness (http://h30565.www3.hp.com/t5/Feature-Articles/Tales-From-The-Crypt-of-Tech-Recruiter-Cluelessness/ba-p/735)) to find out if that was true across the country, or at least for a few states -- and then to add other job titles like programmer -- but she discovered just HOW MUCH work it'd be. And I couldn't afford to pay her that much. *drat* (Of course if any of you are motivated to do that sort of research....?) And in regard to getting more candidates, I'd look at: * The company reputation (glassdoor.com if you're big enough) * The team reputation (That is, I'm so well known that ever since I told people, "I would never work for that asshat again" the boss has had one heck of a hard time finding anyone to hire.) * A job requisition that sounds boring or worse My husband had a happy ending: They found a sysadmin who's golden. And, as it happens, he'd been on the job market for about a week. Esther Schindler twitter.com/estherschindler On Mar 6, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Jim Hickstein wrote: > On 2012/03/06 11:20, Josh Smift wrote: >> EP> I feel we have gotten carried away on a tangent. I was simply asking for >> EP> advice on how to find more candidates. >> >> That's a much less interesting question, obviously. :^) >> >> Unfortunately, pretty much everywhere I've worked has had the same >> problem: Open positions that we can't seem to even get resumes for. :^( >> >> Who's got a story of a successful hiring search, where you posted a >> position and were quickly deluged with candidates? How'd you do it? > > Raise the price? Was the salary range advertised in the first place? (I > know we saw it, here.) Many people won't even consider a job posting if they > can't tell whether they could live on it. Even unemployed people. If they > can see it, and they think it's too low, you won't hear from them, either. > Maybe the market is speaking to you, loud and clear. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
