To let you know what this scene is like right now. I have my resume over most of the
search engines and have been averaging three
to four calls to do PalmOS specific work _A DAY_ for the past two months and here it
is only the summer. I can't wait to see what
will happen come September after the tourist season is complete. Since I am getting
so many calls, I just hike up my rate like
crazy to where it fills my schedule and those with lower budgets can look elsewhere.
It is my view that the skilled Palm developer shortage is up there with the Flash RAM
shortage. Just a year ago, when you said
"PalmOS" to a recruiter, human resources or manager in general, "What's that?" was the
response. Palm has finally made a name for
themselves in the corporate and investment scene and thus those of us with over a year
under our belts are worth more than their
attorneys or doctors -- and we spent less time in school. :)
What I suggest to do to hire people with closely related skills and teach them on the
PalmOS for a month or so and hike their salary
when they get competence. I'm sorry, but the pain fact is that demand is right now
outstripping supply by an order or magnitude and
very few know bad the labor shortage is right now. Personally, I don't even know of a
single college in the area offering PalmOS
development courses. It is almost like the CS community looks down their noses at the
PalmOS since it is too real world.
When I look for people to work in the PalmOS, avoid anyone with a pure software / CS
background and doesn't have the skills to read
a memory map. Guys with firmware and embedded backgrounds like EEs, EETs and ECEs has
been my most successful executions to move
then into the PalmOS instead so someone bellyaching that they can't abstract a whole
project in a dozen lines of Java or Objective
C. Let those types stick with dot-com's.
Hope this helps out.
Steve
Dan Hewins wrote:
> I don't think this the most appropriate place to post this but I
> don't know of a better place, therefore, please reply off-list via
> email to me privately. Thanks. Also, if there is a better place to
> do this, please let me know.
>
> What are you other developers doing to find Palm programmers? Our
> company is looking to hire more developers and we are looking for
> ideas and leads. Are there any recruiters that are Palm oriented?
> Is there a web site? Any ideas are appreciated.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Dan Hewins
> Synergy Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.synsolutions.com/
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