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IT Job Market Is Tanking, But Not For Everyone
CWmike writes "Shortly after the COO of Automated HealthCare Solutions learned that Microsoft planned to cut 5,000 workers over the next 18 months, he and another employee of the medical services provider flew out to Redmond. AHCS now has more than 100 resumes, some of them from Microsoft employees, for about a dozen open positions. That's how the tech job market is these days: there's no doubt the market is tanking, but not for everyone. While numerous IT vendors are laying off workers, and corporate IT jobs are being lost as well, plenty of companies are still hiring. Microsoft's careers site lists more than 700 open jobs in the US, both technical and administrative positions. And IBM has about 3,200 jobs and internships listed worldwide, more than 550 of them in the US — even as it cuts thousands of workers in a move that it is describing not as a layoff, but an effort to 'match skills and resources with our client needs."
...but not for everyone.
THL phish sticks
I just fired half my staff, but I'm still employed! Booyah.
[1]: Alas, I've got a quasi-IT job in small business that isn't going anywhere. I'm a bit of a generalist, with skills ranging from technical support to systems administration to tower climbing to cable-pulling monkey to systems integrator and troubleshooter supreme, working in public safety wireless communications and internal support. For the past year or so, I've done everything from just show up when I feel like to being totally AWOL, due to a number of personal, psychological, and financial issues that my employer isn't exactly aware of. I yell at my coworkers when they do stupid things. I'm a bad employee. I've cost the company a lot of money in the past 12 months, but they keep telling me that I'm an asset that the company needs. OTOH, we're having our best year ever. My Christmas bonus hasn't gone down a bit. I guess I'm lucky -- somehow, I think that if I were anyone else at any other company, I'd have been let go years ago.
Shhhh....don't go telling people, who are better qualified than us, that working for a small business is the holy grail of the IT world. People like us won't be able to compete.
I think I am in the top 1% of people who can sit lazily on the couch and read /. In fact I challenge anyone to be better at doing absolutely nothing than me. Just ask my wife!
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You mean Garrison Keillor was wrong? All the kids are NOT above average? Oh, no!! The pain!
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I can't be the only person hanging from a crane welding in new support beams on a bridge
I bet you are; I for one am at home in front of my computer. I hope your laptop is one of those Toughbook types.
I don't like heights.
Or, come to that, hard work. Why do you think I'm a programmer?
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
God, what is with you people today?
They looked at their 401k...
google "32 trillion offshore needs IRS attention"
He's lying, I'M the AC who caught him in the act!
Thanks!
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