Jobs.. :)

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

As an American that actually came *here* to get a job, I can say with some
certainty that things are *worse*, *much worse*, over there.  I have
friends with unbelieveable experience going without work for four to six
months at a time...

I tend to think that the biggest problem is the glut of semi-experienced
folks that just came up to speed in the past few years working for the
dotcoms.  Now they have no job and get in the way of the experienced folks
matching up to the best jobs - it is amazing how many CV's I have gone
through in the past six months and how few were worth anything.

j

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 amn at ubik.demon.co.uk wrote:

> DavidR at eurosoft-uk.com wrote:
> > 
> > are you lot who are looking for a job willing to travel to the usa ?
> > I am sure there are plently sitting there that you could fill ?
> 
> In case you hadn't noticed the dot-com boom went bust a while back.  There are more programmers than jobs in the US too.
> 
> Indeed the recession in the US for the last year or so is the biggest dead weight on the tech sector in the UK.  Whilst US companies shared their staff & cost cutbacks across European (& other) operations, I expect when they expand again they will mostly be doing so at home for quite a while.
> 
> The last 10 months have been very bad, I've been chasing all around the country just to work on short projects.  There are lots of people chasing every permanent vacancy.  :-(
> 
> 
> Tony
> 
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