I don't care what the government statistics are reporting. I didn't believe them when the economy was tanking and more people were losing their jobs than what was being reported. I certainly don;t believe them now when we see very strong evidence that hiring is picking up.
The government statistics record hiring at large corporations. It does not record consultant utilization. If you haven't noticed, most large firms haven't hired a lot of PC support people or help desk people for years, preferring instead to contract for consultants who do the job for them. These jobs have been poutsourced to US consulting firms for years.
Programming and project management are now being outsourced to and not just to India. Local firms are contracting wit consulting firms for project managers and technical staff in numbers taht we have not seen in several years. Salaries are begining to inch upwards as the economy starts to improve and firms sstart to hire more.
When I spoke to a trade group in October of last year, I told them that I believed the end was near for the jobless recovery. That the goal is to geta consulting assignment or in any way return to a job that would allow them to continue to have a good resume (don't take a job that has you doing installation of networks at doctors' offices if what you've done up until that point is very different).
Come to networking groups like Your Next Job (www.newyorkmetrotechnologyjobs.com/yournextjob.htm) and network with others. Get into some of the social networking groups like Ryze or LinkedIn.
AZ fewwyears ago, I was extremely pessimistic about the job market. Those days are over. You can do it if you work the system as hard as you worked when you were working at your job.
The government statistics record hiring at large corporations. It does not record consultant utilization. If you haven't noticed, most large firms haven't hired a lot of PC support people or help desk people for years, preferring instead to contract for consultants who do the job for them. These jobs have been poutsourced to US consulting firms for years.
Programming and project management are now being outsourced to and not just to India. Local firms are contracting wit consulting firms for project managers and technical staff in numbers taht we have not seen in several years. Salaries are begining to inch upwards as the economy starts to improve and firms sstart to hire more.
When I spoke to a trade group in October of last year, I told them that I believed the end was near for the jobless recovery. That the goal is to geta consulting assignment or in any way return to a job that would allow them to continue to have a good resume (don't take a job that has you doing installation of networks at doctors' offices if what you've done up until that point is very different).
Come to networking groups like Your Next Job (www.newyorkmetrotechnologyjobs.com/yournextjob.htm) and network with others. Get into some of the social networking groups like Ryze or LinkedIn.
AZ fewwyears ago, I was extremely pessimistic about the job market. Those days are over. You can do it if you work the system as hard as you worked when you were working at your job.
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