I was laid off back in June of last year when the company I worked for for 7 years decided to up and move to Chicago and I chose not to.
My experience during the 6 months of unemployment that followed was that headhunters and huge job websites were about equally useless.
The job sites kept sending me nothing but "work at home" jobs (probably stuffing envelopes or telemarketing or something else distasteful.) The headhunters (when I could get one to return my calls, that is) sent me nothing but low-paying entry-level jobs that didn't interest me at all.
What finally worked for me was aggressively working my personal network of IT people I had met over the years. After only about a month of that, I had two offers to choose from, both for jobs that had never been published in any newspaper or website.
Bottom line: while I wouldn't recommend discounting the websites and headhunters altogether, I certainly wouldn't rely on them.
The main problem I have with devices like this (I own the Turtle Beach Audiotron) is that they don't support crossfading. This seems like it would be trivially easy to implement in firmware - so why hasn't someone done it yet?
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I was laid off back in June of last year when the company I worked for for 7 years decided to up and move to Chicago and I chose not to.
My experience during the 6 months of unemployment that followed was that headhunters and huge job websites were about equally useless.
The job sites kept sending me nothing but "work at home" jobs (probably stuffing envelopes or telemarketing or something else distasteful.) The headhunters (when I could get one to return my calls, that is) sent me nothing but low-paying entry-level jobs that didn't interest me at all.
What finally worked for me was aggressively working my personal network of IT people I had met over the years. After only about a month of that, I had two offers to choose from, both for jobs that had never been published in any newspaper or website.
Bottom line: while I wouldn't recommend discounting the websites and headhunters altogether, I certainly wouldn't rely on them.
The main problem I have with devices like this (I own the Turtle Beach Audiotron) is that they don't support crossfading. This seems like it would be trivially easy to implement in firmware - so why hasn't someone done it yet?