Hi Elaine, I'm not sure "looking for a job" carries quite the same old stigma as lepers of yore, so much as "looking for a job WHEN OUT OF WORK". It's that old catch-22 again.
The next most leper-like stage is probably the "leaving soon" state, regardles of whether going to a new job or not. There's a nice Dilbert cartoon about that somewhere, where people stop talking, to the soon-to-leave-group-member. I think they EVEN stop lending him their paper stapler! It'd be funny if it wasn't so true. People can be such sheep! -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/ On Saturday 21 August 2010 00:47:28 Elaine Ashton wrote: > On Aug 20, 2010, at 4:06 PM, brian d foy wrote: > > Gabor's basically right though: it's nice to have a list of people > > looking for contracts. I tend to find, however, that the people you'd > > most like to hire aren't ever looking because they have quite the queue > > already. :) > > SAGE (the sysadmin guild) has a section of their members site for both job > postings and for those looking for jobs which is nice not only to see > what's out there in terms of jobs, e.g. SAG is currently looking for a > sysadmin to the stars in LA :), and other folks' CVs even if you're not > currently looking for work. > > Those for whom work seeks them are fewer in this economy, especially since > I've noticed a trend in the SA market of jobs demanding a much wider range > of skills and for a bit less money. I'm sure it's not much different in > other areas of IT including programmers. Looking for a job may still carry > some stigma similar to lepers of yore but, judging by the news lately, > they're in good and growing company and it wouldn't be a bad idea to give > those with specific skills a place to market those skills (and available > jobs). > > e.
