I know there were a number of IT people on the list who have in the not too distant past been looking for IT jobs. As I am likely to be in the looking for a job market soon, I thought I'd ask what the current market is shaping up as. I'm more interested in how the local programming market is. What types of jobs are available, qualifications, etc. Any Linux related programming jobs? It would be interesting to see those.
Brian Densmore
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:12 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
I know there were a number of IT people on the list who have in the not too distant past been looking for IT jobs. As I am likely to be in the looking for a job market soon, I thought I'd ask what the current market is shaping up as.
There's a lot of talk, and recruiters/placement agencies are building their stables with talk of lots of new projects, but I haven't seen any actual jobs yet.
They say that companies are still not hiring directly, they're contracting projects, not positions.
They (the recruiters) are speculating that a lot of offices that upgraded for Y2K are reaching the end-of-life on those upgrades because they haven't upgraded since due to the weak economy.
Sprint is moving upper management to Washington, D.C., but will probably continue to flood the local IT market with their cast-offs. There is a huge pool of under-employed programmers left over from Y2K projects in the area.
I have heard that except for Sprint, the local programming market is for Life Insurance companies and Financial companies (DST). I don't know if Garmin has a significant programming staff. There are the old "Silicon Prarie" companies like Tallgrass (whoever they are these days), but it's not a big market for PC languages.
On Friday 14 January 2005 12:12 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:
I know there were a number of IT people on the list who have in the not too distant past been looking for IT jobs. As I am likely to be in the looking for a job market soon, I thought I'd ask what the current market is shaping up as. I'm more interested in how the local programming market is. What types of jobs are available, qualifications, etc. Any Linux related programming jobs? It would be interesting to see those.
Cerner has just set out to hire 400 new people, from what I hear. In general, companies are more willing to spend a little on technology than they were last year. I just went out on my own doing consulting and it's been good so far.
Quoting Jason Clinton me@jasonclinton.com:
Cerner has just set out to hire 400 new people, from what I hear. In general, companies are more willing to spend a little on technology than they were last year. I just went out on my own doing consulting and it's been good so far.
You're self employed now?
My brother left his full time gig a couple of months ago and has been hitting the pavement hard in Lawrence. He's undercutting the competition a bit, but is making more than he was making at his old job, although not if you factor in benefits. He's been surprised at how many businesses are needing help and are willing to pay for it.
I heard professionals on the radio a few weeks back speculating that '05 should be a growth year for IT in the south and midwest, but that the east coast would be flat or have negative growth.
-- Dave Hull http://insipid.com
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