I fortunately am employed, but I am, and will probably always look to better my career. I have been on some interviews over the past few months with little luck. I have been targeting the IT field in the healthcare arena. My interviews have stretched from eastern NC to the triangle. Mostly with very large employers >5000 employees. Although, I consider myself competent in a wide diversity of IT, most large non-IT based companies are looking for the paper employees. Everyone now is buying their products ready-made with a support contract that a monkey could administer. I really think that is where are the jobs are going. Why hire programmers if I can buy something off the shelf that I just load and it works?
Most of the companies I have spoken to rely strongly on the big names, Cisco, Microsoft, and Oracle. And unless you are VERY proficient in one of these fields there is a line at the door waiting for the same interview. From what I have seen most companies see a name and say "hey, their big, been around a long time, so they must be good." They also want paper proof that you can do the job..ie..MCSE, CCNP, CNA. The best IT professionals I know have had little or no formal education in the IT field. These are the people who desire to learn because they like what they do, not just to get a job. But, business managers do not realize this and hire John Q MCSE (no offense to MCSEs) and then the manager complains when the IT budget hits 7 digits. My $.02 chris On Friday 13 June 2003 08:30 pm, Philip Buckley wrote: > Judging from the outpouring from the list the last couple of days it sounds > like finding a full time job right off the bat down there may be a problem > for me. It got me thinking about getting together a loose confederation of > people who could work as a sort of distributed contracting type company. I > have something like that up here right now, a designer, a couple of > developers, a network guy, a security guy and one guy that basically throws > us his overflow. > > Anyone who might be interested in something like that let me know, maybe > there is more work and leads then first appears. I've found that having 3 > or 4 other people to bounce ideas off of and work with somehow makes me a > better worker/producer. > > Phil > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 6/13/2003 at 7:05 PM Jill wrote: > >count me on the "out of work" side ... > > > >jill > > > >On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:30, Philip Buckley wrote: > >> Just wondering how many people out here on the list are currently out of > > > >work? > > > >> Phil > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> TriLUG mailing list > >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > >> http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > > >_______________________________________________ > >TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > >TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
