Bits from the job front... As yet another wave of people I know seem to have lost their jobs last week,
here is the latest in what I'm seeing...

* Even knowing a CTO/CEO/CFO may not even get your resume looked at, the
feedback I'm getting is that hiring managers are only considering family
and extended family for jobs - everyone has plenty of unemployed relatives.

* Most job sites are now almost empty - so the practice of posting "resume
bait" jobs is coming to an end. The postings they do have are months old
bait. This is now a completely pointless way to look for a job.

* We're almost flatlne in jobs created for several months, where population
growth needs about 120k jobs a month to keep things steady.

* Unemployment rates are only staying steady becasue people drop out of the
workforce number after they cant find a job for a long time. The "not in
labor force" is rising 400k a month. International numbers are no better -
technology is replacing people, especially the people tha tmake the
technoogy.

* Grad school programs are stuffed full of people for every non-tech major.
Colleges are having big headaches dealing with all the day-job refugees.

* Spam for porn, ink, and stocks has dropped off, spam (the english ones I
see subject lines for) now seems to be dominated by work-at-home scams and
resume services. That's got to be a BAD sign.

* FoRK is now almost all spam, somebody fix the damn subscriber-only-posting
setting already, dont make me show up at your house Rohit ;)

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
  http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
  beberg@mithral.com





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