Job Market

Fri Nov 4 10:04:14 PST 2005

On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Danny Howard wrote:

> You know qualified SysAdmins who need work?  How about Perl developers
> with Mason, Postgres, and AJAX experience?  Everybody is hiring and  
> the
> best candidates are scarce now because, well, everybody's hiring.   
> Maybe
> Google gets some credit for sucking in a lot of the most talented  
> people
> in the Valley.
>
> I have seen "bleak" ... that was 2001, 2002, and 2003.  In 2004 I  
> took a
> new position with a 60% salary increase.  (I had been underpaid.)  I
> don't see bleak.  At least, not for the really talented ... anyone  
> else
> care to share their observations?

In the past month, I've had two job offers over beer, rebuffed a  
number of recruiters.

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_Deirdre                                             http://deirdre.net