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Are things getting better?
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| larkspur 2004-03-12, 10:41 pm |
| I am in Tennessee and it appears that jobs are being posted more frequent than the past month. How about where you are? | |
| jkhnwspec 2004-03-12, 11:27 pm |
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Originally posted by larkspur
I am in Tennessee and it appears that jobs are being posted more frequent than the past month. How about where you are?
Doesn't seem to be the case in Northwest Ohio.  IT jobs are few and far between.  | |
| DaDnDe 2004-03-13, 11:20 am |
| i am in WA St and the overall job picture seems to be better.
but i am just going by the number of pages in the regional job listings.
but most are low paying or in the medical field.
IT is still very slow around here. | |
| iggy4270 2004-03-13, 7:02 pm |
| Same her in Boston. Although there has been an increase in construction in Cambridge for the Bio-tech industry. | |
| larkspur 2004-03-19, 11:28 pm |
| Keep your Head up things are getting better, slow, but better.
Thanks all for the reply.
The nurseing field is going through what IT went through a few years ago.
You know the mad rush!!!! | |
| prezbedard 2004-03-20, 12:16 am |
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Originally posted by iggy4270
Same her in Boston. Although there has been an increase in construction in Cambridge for the Bio-tech industry.
yup it is slow here too around 128/95 | |
| DaDnDe 2004-03-20, 11:26 am |
| i just read a report by the Labor Bureau that claims that the Pacific Northwest will have the largest rise in hiring for the IT field.
In a poll of several CIO's in the US, they were asked their plans as far as expanding or reducing their IT departments this summer.
The Pacific Northwest was first with 16% increasing and 3% decreasing for a net of +13%.
The South Atlantic states were 2nd with a net of +12%.
so maybe things will be looking up. the expected increase is the best outlook in 4 years so maybe things are looking up. | |
| prezbedard 2004-03-20, 12:08 pm |
| anything in there about the NorthEast? | |
| DaDnDe 2004-03-20, 12:16 pm |
| northeast was 4th i think. the worst projections were for the Rocky Mountains and southwest at +6% net i think.
all areas are expecting an increase with US as a whole going up 10%.
but these stats i kind of wonder about since they are government generated. i wonder if it wasnt an election year if the stats would have been so rosy.
also the college grads are available at this time period so i question where the jobs will be at.
i dont have the training or experience to even look at most of those positions. i plan to get more education, but i need to get work first. | |
| prezbedard 2004-03-20, 1:03 pm |
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Originally posted by DaDnDe
but these stats i kind of wonder about since they are government generated. i wonder if it wasnt an election year if the stats would have been so rosy.
I'm sure that is why. | |
| Kasor 2004-03-20, 11:12 pm |
| Not in a million yrs...  | |
| Tarzanboy 2004-03-22, 12:16 am |
| From a purely observational standpoint, it would appear that the job market is slowly creeping its way back up. Whether the published percentages are due to the election year fudge factor, the current information security uproar, the expansion of businesses into more modern technologies or a combination of factors would be an interesting question.
Cheers,
TB | |
| DaDnDe 2004-03-22, 2:01 am |
| i hope the job market will improve because the current IT departments have been stretched thin because of the dot.com bust backlash and they are simply starting to hire because a regular infusion of new blood is vital to any industry.
also i read an article that Dell was moving some of its tech support back to the US from elsewhere(india i think) in response to customer complaints about the language barrier.
hopefully we will get a little more of that. | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-03-22, 11:14 am |
| I live in Tennessee. Dell has one of its major locations here. They advertised 100 new tech support positions a few months ago. The pay was only $10 - 12/hr and they hire everyone in as a "temp" worker, so they can fire you on a whim. That's what they did about 2 1/2 years ago. I have a friend who worked there. They would bring groups of 30 - 50 people into a room and announce they were all fired. They would collect your badge as you left the room.
If that's considered positive job growth, that's a weak interpretation of the truth. | |
| DaDnDe 2004-03-22, 11:28 am |
| dell is nothing but a sweat shop where less than 1-5% of employees are in a good position.
dont get me wrong, it can be a great place to get your foot in the door, but from what i understand, you have to be more of a networking pro then a super techie to survive there. | |
| yanqui 2004-03-22, 12:33 pm |
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Originally posted by DaDnDe
i hope the job market will improve because the current IT departments have been stretched thin because of the dot.com bust backlash and they are simply starting to hire because a regular infusion of new blood is vital to any industry.
also i read an article that Dell was moving some of its tech support back to the US from elsewhere(india i think) in response to customer complaints about the language barrier.
hopefully we will get a little more of that.
One of my other groups had a discussion over that. Dell had outsourced a lot of its tech support to India, and due to much customer dissatisfaction, some tech support was being brought back here--only coroporate tech support. Consumer tech support calls will still go to that number that rings in INdia. Our discussion was that many of us are freelance office support workers, and don't we' constitute outsourced labor, and should we be upset that Dell outsourced US jobs to India and all that. My take on it was, Dell screwed up thinking that it was okay that people who may indeed have great knowledge in this field can't perform the work they're paid to do, work that consumers pay for in the price of the machine or the extended service contract, due to the language difficulties. Consumers simply don't have the clout that corps do, unless they form some sort of alliance, which is hard to get people to do, and so Dell's consumer tech support will remain overseas for a good while.
I also got an email from someone in India asking me to outsource work to him. | |
| DaDnDe 2004-03-22, 1:22 pm |
| well i realize that what dell did isnt much, but everything has to start somewhere.
hopefully, companies will begin to realize that money isn't the biggest factor in tech support. when they realize that more money may come their way if their tech support was more effective, then maybe they will lean towards more american tech support centers. |
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