| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:28:08 -0500 |
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:04:54PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > i'm in the process of trying to find myself a job in the philly area, and > was hoping i could tap on this list to get some good resources/advice/etc. > does anyone know of any mailing lists or search engines? other avenues? > things to avoid? One of those headhunter websites is local (well, regional)... don't quite recall exactly which one off the top of my head, but I usually hear their ads on the way to or from work, so I'll post again if I recall. It's www.job<something>.com. jobpostings, maybe? The topic's come up more than a few times on PLUG, so you could email mct privately and pester him about getting the archives online (or some nice person could point out here that they have that thread archived :^>). www.philadelphiarecruiters.com and www.philadelphiajobmarket.com both exist, but I can't vouch for them. Someone I trust (and it may have been *you*) pointed out that slashdot has a decent job search engine, and Istr that userfriendly does as well (though it's maybe west coast-centric). If you aren't already, you should get subscribed to the Swarthmore CS department's job-opps mailing list. (C'mon, it'e easy, and you can just add yourself directly without even talking to majordomo. ;^>) When I was fishing around for summer jobs and consulting work, I found the most important thing was to be listed in a variety of places (though uniformly would be good; you've got a resume put together, right?). I got plenty of calls. Most didn't work out because I couldn't take a full-time job while I was still employed, and I got the job I have now by a senior developer at my employer noticing I knew what the hell I was talking about on PLUG, but that doesn't mean that the headhunter approach never works. The environment isn't exactly rosy, but it is on a bit of an upturn. Most especially, people who actually have a clue are (finally) getting jobs again, and companies are noticing that paper MCSEs are maybe not all they're cracked up to be (computertraining.com's commercials notwithstanding). I didn't find Swarthmore's career planning office to be much help in locating a job if you didn't want to go into some kind of econ-related consulting work (and I don't think that you do), but they definitely have people who know the right and wrong ways to present various things on a resume, so meeting with them isn't a total dead-end (despite your recent less than ideal experience). Maybe in one of their "resume workshop" kinds of things (they do those through the spring semester, right?). Floating your availability through PLUG (like this!) and PADS (Philadelphia Area Debian Society) couldn't hurt either. Here, at least, that's not inappropriate. I'd check the PADS posting rules before I did so there (just because *I* don't know). And, you know, there's always the Math Forum... ;^> -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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