On 27 Jun 98, at 9:15, Andreas Ramos wrote:
> Here's yet more web jobs...
Andreas,
Where did you get the job listing from?
But in any case I wonder who these people hire. I have long sent my resume
(albeit not in the most congenial ways -- I usually just send a url and tell them if
they can't understand what they see then no Word doc will get me a job I want
anyhow). But there was a time when I was more conciliator yet I received no
job offers.
And oddly enough I have seen ads locally as the ones you sent. They usually
require skills I have not acquired (like C++ for web development, and yet they
also want you to know Perl and C and Java and be a web designer and know
network engineering ...). And then I see the people that are hired. They are
usually people who simply know how to use some html editor like Front Page.
I have seen this in 3 cases. I have met many people working for web
development companies and few, few of them have any knowledge of what is
really going on.
And then one constanly hears of this need, this pressing need for competent
workers, for workers with the right skills. It is a big joke imho.
I currently have a job but I don't know how long it will last. Sending out my
resume as a word document or ascii text or just the url to the online version
(which has gone through all sorts of modifications) has not got me a job yet. I
got my current job because I met boss via a telphone marketing campaign I
launched for a couple of weeks where I called up all the top 50 companies of
any type and asked to speak to the person in charge of the internet. He
bought a virtual domain from me (when I was reselling for iserver which I don't
do anymore). We got to know each other. One day I noticed that he had been
looking at my resume (I get an email any time someone looks at my resume
with the http_referer and ip number). I sent him an email and asked why he was
looking at it. He said he was interviewing programmers for a
programming/webmaster job and he wanted to show them the sort of resume
he expected to see: examples of web work. He said all these programmers had
no examples of work. And then that led to my getting the job.
In any case, I am wondering if I would be better off if I moved to say NYC or SF
or .... and just went in person looking for a job. Locally (in the mid-south) there
are not too many opportunities. I would have to make a minimum of 50K ;
would that be possible?
Any comments always appreciated.
Peter
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