[wplug] OT: Interviewing?

[Tim Lesher]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:34:41PM -0400, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
>     I'm having a hard time securing a position here in Pittsburgh, with 8
> years of unix systems administration experience, I'm wondering if others on
> this list are having similar issues?

How long have you been on the market?  Things have picked up a bit in
the last month or so, but before then it had been pretty rough.  I've
also heard both from people inside and outside the industry here that
sysadmin and IT-type jobs are lagging behind the recent improvement in
jobs for programmers, so perhaps the development horse will help pull
the IT cart.

>From my side, it definitely looks better than it was six months ago.
I starting looking a few weeks ago, sent two resumes, and got two
interviews.  I haven't received them yet, but I heard I'm getting
offers from both.

So far, the best local resource I've found has been the Pittsburgh
Technology Council site at http://www.pghtech.org.  It gets updated
pretty frequently, and has a pretty good selection (again, I can only
speak for the programming side of things).

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Tim Lesher <tim at lesher.ws>
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