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Sunday, August 17, 2008

Back On Track, How Is The Job Hunt Going?


Ok Everyone,


Back on track how is my job hunt going, since that was kind of the mission statement of this blog at the start of my diatribe.


Currently 12 scam offers:

Or offers that were unsolicited from less than reputable companies raning from mostly insurance sales to yacht sales to "just give us your bank account #'s and make 10% on each transaction"

ALL of which were harvested from Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com.


2 Real job offers that I have turned down:

One asking me to cover my hotel costs for the opportunity of training on a State of Michigan proprietary software tied to family services for 2 months...that's right I WOULD PAY FOR MY ROOM WHILE TRAINING FOR TWO MONTHS....typical State of Michigan brilliance...I said no thanks.


2nd offer from a former supervisor in the IT business, (I don't want to say the company name but it is a fortune 100) it's in North Carolina and I would have to move for unfortunately too little pay, but I still appreciate this offer and it shows as I always said. "It's not what you know or who you know but first who you know THEN what you know that gets you ahead in this business"

Positions applied for?
About 250-300


So after 2 month going on 3 this is what the market has to offer a 15 year IT veteran.


Some may say there ARE jobs out there, or I am not trying hard enough or I don't have the necessary knowledge or etc etc etc but in the end, the market is down in Michigan, farther down than I have seen it in decades.




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