On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ryan Simpkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you are a python or perl dev, apply just for fun. You know you want to. > Lots of open positions out there right now. > > Your fortune for today: "Ask for a raise."
My $0.019999: Any recruiter doing this job for a while will tell you hiring *is* already back and will continue strong for the next several years. One personal indicator is the number of "recruiters" trying to network with me that were doing something else (read: mortgage loan processor) 6 months ago. Nearly every economic expansion in the history of the USA has lasted 6-7 years from trough to trough, (see http://www.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html ) and this current economic cycle officially hit "bottom" 7 months ago. Of course, the "climb" out of a recession is always the hardest (i.e. longer than the "drop" from peak to trough on the inevitable back-end), and with housing at a low, a lot of otherwise positive indicators are sluggish as well... for example, hiring. That being said, you have between 5-6 years of good times ahead, also noting that Utah has led the nation in terms of economic strength through this downturn, and will likely reach optimum "full" employment (~4%) several quarters before the rest of the country. Count that as a good thing. For some of you, that means this may be the time to hang on wherever you are and ride the bulls that surely will be coming for the next few years. For others, this is your chance to get out of wherever you are and make a move to something that interests you as YOUR personal value-proposition is currently going up steadily. And, as the average employment for Software Engineers still seems to settle in between the 18-36 month range between new opportunities, you may want to make room for even two new gigs at the top of your resume before too long. If anything else, update your LinkedIN profile (even if you don't say you're "looking", just make some kind of addition/change to your profile so it will show up higher in search results) and ensure your contact information is available so that opportunities may find their way to you a little easier. Good luck out there. Robert Merrill Sr. Recruiter, Novell 801-861-5536, www.connectedwell.com, http://twitter.com/robertmerrill, http://tungle.me/robertmerrill PS, if any of you Python coders happen to also grok test engineering and cloud computing, I have a job for you (perm, not contract--sorry)... [email protected] /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
