Stupid recruiters.

Thu Nov 3 17:10:06 PST 2005

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I fully agree with you from a networking point of view. Some of them,  
however, either
deserve ridicule or going straight to a spam blacklist.

I've been off of the market for years now, but based on the amount of  
noise I've been receiving
from recruiters, I feel that the market isn't as bad as you're  
portraying it. Mid-level admins will
never get $100k just because they can power on a pc and call it a  
server, but I see no reason for
any employable,  competent unix admin to be without a job right now.

In fact, given the mass # of sysadmins that Google & Yahoo are  
hiring, the pool of good admins
should be drying up in a way that should make it more of an  
employee's market. Honestly, the
least employable admins I know have all found jobs in the past 6  
months... If the guys who shower
once a week, wear stained t-shirts and torn jeans, and have bad  
attitudes can get decent paying
positions in the bay area, then I find it hard to believe that  
anybody else can't.

On Nov 3, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Paul M. Moriarty wrote:

> Michael T. Halligan writes:
> [...]
>>
>> Do people actually encourage these recruiters?
>>
>
> Many companies will work with recruiters on a non-exclusive basis.   
> As I
> have a good deal of enterprise sw listed on my resume, I get a lot of
> contacts for ERP implementation consultants.  Kind of like Nicole,  
> I reply
> saying thank you but I do not believe it would be a good fit.  If  
> they then
> reply asking me what would be a good fit, we can discuss further.
>
> The job market today is still pretty bleak for employees.  Anything  
> you can
> do to extend your network can give you an advantage when you're  
> looking for
> a job.

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