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Post #46,751 by orion 7/24/02 2:46:10 PM Reply	Didn't work I cannot find a low paying job. I'm working on getting fiancing for getting a college degree, nobody wants to lend money to an unemployed IT worker down on his luck apparently. I'm working on program designs, but lost my notebook that I was writing them in and cannot find it. Plus I cannot find a market to sell my programs to, and others have tried to do that and failed. No matter how hard I try, I just cannot seem to get anywhere. It is like there is a big conspiracy against me and it is widespread in this area. Everyone is doing their best to try and drive me nuts and act ignorant against me. Like I am on some sort of black list or something. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #46,761 by tuberculosis 7/24/02 4:56:44 PM Reply	No degree? No wonder! If you don't have a 4 year degree (in anything - need not be IT) then your resume isn't making the first cut. When times are good and workers are scarce hiring standards drop. But during lean times companies can afford to be choosy and raise standards. The first thing they do to pare down the number of resumes submitted is to toss out the non college degree applicants. Unless you have killer skills in rare technologies, you need a degree. So you might as well go back to school. I had a GF in the same predicament. She's a great intuitive data modeler but didn't have a degree for a long time. Finally the stuff she was good at was out of date (adios primeos and idms) and she couldn't get a job. Back to school for 2 years (had a degree mostly finished) and she got hired shortly after graduating. It was a crappy job - the first one, but once you have one you can usually trade up. Plus I agree with Scott. I'm liking my current job. My home is Denver - all telcos and telco is on its ass. So there's no jobs and I can't go home. But there seems to be a shortage of decent IT workers in France. My turn to exploit the visa issue. You gotta either move to the jobs or switch to something you can do where you are. I am out of the country for the duration of the Bush administration. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you when democracy returns.
Post #46,764 by orion 7/24/02 5:51:41 PM Reply	I'm working on it I have an Associates in Data Processing, it used to be enough back in 1997, but apparently no longer. I am already talking with two local colleges over the Fall Semester, and have been applying for student loans. So far, no loan approved yet, but there is still my wife's Credit Union to go to tomorrow. My VB 6.0 skills are already out of date as VB.NET has taken over. I've seen ads for local jobs that required three years of .NET experience, and the fcker hasn't even been out for a year yet! I don't think that local HR departments have a clue these days. I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #46,819 by deSitter 7/25/02 10:50:06 AM Reply	Resume Scanners Most resumes are never seen by human eyes. A resume screener auto-circular-files the ones lacking buzzwords and phrases. I think Matloff quoted something like 3% generating even an interview, and 25% of that a hire. -drl
Post #46,831 by orion 7/25/02 12:15:56 PM Reply	Also sometimes the resume scanner rejects resumes based on fonts it cannot read, paper too thick to work with the reader (they may not have a flatbed scanner), and if the resume papers are stapled sometimes the HR people just toss it because they don't want to remove the staple to scan in the resume. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #46,871 by mhuber 7/25/02 4:14:39 PM Reply	What about adding a line like: "BA in Computer Science from Princeton - I wish I had one!" That will get past inorganics. Unfortunately, it won't get past droids. ---- United we stand Divided we dominate the planet without really trying
Post #46,892 by orion 7/25/02 6:33:00 PM Reply	Droids sure you can fool the computer scanners, but the droids will reject it. Plus if it did make it past the droids, management may not be impressed by that comment and toss it out anyway. The idea is to make something that can pass the scanners, the droids, and the management. *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*
Post #46,917 by Ashton 7/25/02 8:50:39 PM Reply	Please, please resist the urge to explain the obvious Every time? (there are in Fact: very few Martians who read this stuff and need that level of explanation?) (? added for your comfort & convenience) Ashton found below: Thank you for making a simple LRPD very happy.
Post #46,820 by deSitter 7/25/02 10:50:54 AM Reply	Resume Scanners Most resumes are never seen by human eyes. A resume screener auto-circular-files the ones lacking buzzwords and phrases. I think Matloff quoted something like 3% generating even an interview, and 25% of that a hire. -drl

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