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  1. Re:DC by tshoppa · · Score: 2 · on Fewer Jobs, Less Pay In The IT Industry
    Things seem to be heating back up in the Metro DC area. Following 9-11 things really started moving downhill fast

    From my view, things got bad in early 2001 in general in DC. (And they had gone bad up and down the east coast in mid-2000 for the manufacturing sector that I used to work in.) They are turning upwards; the various on-line job site (like DC.Techies.Com) are now consistently turning up a dozen or two jobs consistent with my profile every week, a big boost over what it was a year ago.

  2. Re:Probably slightly better than Fortran... by whizzird · · Score: 2, Informative · on Downsides to the C++ STL?

    At this point the momentum in the software industry lies firmly with Java and C#.
    Exactly what type of crack are you smoking?
    According to techies.com, C++ is the most requested language skill, and the second skill overall (after Unix), with Java close behind it. Java is not a good laguage for building large enterprise level systems. JVMs are too slow.
    More important...C++ jobs pay much better than Java jobs (and Unix pays better than windoze).
    I do C++ on Solaris and Linux, so I'm happy. :>

    As for C#. Who would ever use it? It only runs on windoze, which is rarely used in the enterprise, and it is slow, buggy, and relatively untested.

  3. Re:Priorities by smatthew · · Score: 1 · on Creating Concise Technical Resumes?
    Here's a couple hints i've picked up:

    • If you don't want to emphasize your formal education, don't put that as the first thing. Resume's are not set in stone. Yes - there are things that one should follow in order to have an attractive resume, but you don't have to put the sections in the order that the template you started with with.
    • Conversly, put the section you want to show off the most at the front. If you learned while on the job, put your skills section first (well, after your objective statement).
    • Please, nobody cares about your last 15million jobs. If they want a full employment list, they'll ask. Keep the previous employment to under a page
    • No "References available upon request" shit. Of course they want your references - so either put them on your resume or have another sheet that shows them
    • I have to back up the previous poster, CUSTOMIZE YOUR RESUME. But I'll add on this, customize your Cover Letter too. If there's info on there that I don't need to see, i'll probably wonder why you're wasting my time. Arrgh
    • Don't list your hobbies, unless they are soo completely and totally relevant. For example - president of a LUG and you're applying to VA Linux? Then you can show it. But 99.99736% of the time they don't care/want to know.

    Any other hints? Check out all the stupid sites out there....

    There's plenty of other resources out there - just look.

  4. Job searches by Shut · · Score: 1 · on Finding a Linux Job

    As for other helpful job search engines, I find that Techies.com and Monster.com are two fairly great job sites as well. I like how you can narrow down jobs to a certain merto area.