On 18/05/06 06:40 +0530, sastry wrote: > On Wed May 17 2006 14:48, Carol Upadhya wrote: > > This seems to be a common complaint these days, there was even a newspaper > > article the other day. Is the job market so hot that people can afford to > > just drop offers like this? Or is it only for a few hotshots? > > Excuse me - but isn't this an old story? > > I mean "old" as in at least 7-8 years old. Young "techies" have so many jobs > on offer that it is a "buyer's market" so to speak. > This is going to keep happening while the outsourcing boom lasts. One thing that some IT majors have been doing is to recruit in smaller towns, where the chances of turnover are smaller (as of now).
Keep in mind that a lot of people these days want to run their own companies, and hence, they want to generate as much seed capital as possible. If you come from that angle, it isn't worth bothering about your reputation in the job market, because you are going to be out of it in a few years. The money is what matters. Devdas Bhagat
