On Sun, Sep 02, 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Career advice needed": > Sometimes as you've said, there are no jobs IN ISRAEL for certain skills.
Which is why I think it's pointless to acquire only certain skills. I've worked in several jobs in my life, and each one of them was very different from the previous one. I never said to myself (or employers), "hey, I worked on TCP/IP in my last job, so now I must find another TCP/IP job". The best way to make sure you have a job is to have a relatively wide array of skills, not just one skill. Like someone already said, being the world's finest Fortran 77 coder might not help you much to get a job (although, believe it or not, there are still companies who value this skill). > I don't know you, except for your approximate age and that you want to > be an employee (both of which were recently posted), but if you > really want to get a job doing something you like, you may have > to spend a few years in Silicon Valley. You then make the contacts > to go work for a start up and "offshore" yourself. This advice was true 20 years ago, but I'd advise against this today (unless, of course, you want to "see the world"). There are plenty of computer jobs in Israel - in large companies, medium companies, and startups. Unless you insist on specializing in some very specific subject that nobody in Israel is interested in, there is simply no reason to move the the US. Heck, I even had a job offer from one of the most sought-after US employers, and rejected it, because I was so sure that I won't have a problem finding a job in Israel in the forseable future, and because I want to stay in Israel (Call me a Zionist, if you must...) -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Sep 2 2007, 19 Elul 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Politics, n: from Greek, "poly"=many, http://nadav.harel.org.il |"ticks"=blood sucking parasites. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
