Re: programming job market in bay area in US

In article <REM-2005jun27-001@xxxxxxxxx>, rem642b@xxxxxxxxx says...
> > You should be sending your resume to every company you can find
> > hiring for anything even remotely resembling your skill set.
>
> I do that. But it's very rare that I find a job ad where if I remove
> 70% of the parts I don't qualify the remaining 30% are good.

"Are good?" Do you really need a job as badly as you
are suggesting? Whether the job is any good or not
should be completely irrelevant to anyone claiming they
need a job badly. Similarly, why are you excluding
relocation? Sometimes people have to relocate to get
a job, that's a fact. Even if there are circumstances
making it impossible for you to move, why are you
(seemingly) only looking at software jobs? What's
wrong with any "help needed" jobs (selling burgers,
working at Office Max, etc)? If you need a job, well,
that's a job.


As for software jobs, well, as someone else already said:
if they don't get your resume, you stand no chance at
getting the job. I've already given you my advice
(basically: rank all available jobs on how well they
match your skills and interests. Send resume to the top
N jobs, for as many N as possible). You chose not to
listen, and instead you spend large amounts of time
posting here about your failure to act on a number of
job postings. Perhaps it is therapeutic to complain, but
it is not furthering your goal of obtaining a job! You
need to just send resumes out, and stop worrying about
whether you fit the skills profile on a job description
to a tee.


> > http://www.monster.com/
> I clicked on "Find Jobs" which got to me a form to fill out whether I
> wanted to apply for an account or already had one or didn't want one
> yet, but no way to submit the form, dead end, worthless site.

Nonsense. The site is working perfectly fine, with more
than 1000 hits on "software" in the San Jose area; no
registration required.


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