On 24 May 2011 09:48, David Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Back in Australia, it's hard for me to even get a job. Agents say not > enough experience. > > The best offer I can get is about $30 per hour for system administration > work. So to me those figures seem really high. > You're talking to the wrong people. Lemme guess, recruitment agents with English accents, straight off the plane from England but claiming to have extensive contacts in the industry? They're idiots. Every last one of them. They'll be reading your somewhat eclectic CV and see that as a liability, which is idiotic of course but they're idiots you see. Since they have absolutely no understanding of what we do, they just parse a checklist of skills against your CV. Try to find companies that advertise direct. Whirlpool is a good place for that kind of thing. If Python is your thing, try finding out what big companies are doing Python in a big way in Sydney and contact them, and find others in the community who work for them (LinkedIn is your friend). If there's a job you really want that's got a recruitment agent in the way, put in a custom CV that ticks all the mandatory boxes, plus something ridiculously wrong but funny (12 years Ruby on Rails experience). Hopefully you'll get through to someone with a brain who'll find it funny and decide to call you. The IT recruitment agency slogan: If you can, do. If you can't, have you considered a career in IT recruitment? -- Simon Rumble <[email protected]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
