Great blog post today on The O'Reilly Radar. It graphs the number of online job postings month by month for the last four years. I won't steal the pictures here, you'll have to click the link to see them, but it confirms what I've been seeing while doing my job hunting. It looks particularly bad for the folks back home in Minnesota. A slight downward trend, with a slight uptick now. Although I have a feeling it will ramp up a bit more for June and July as more government spending trickles out of the stimulus bill. Personally I went the month of March and April with very little job oportunties. Late April and May it picked up slightly (and I landed a short term contract). Now here in June, no fewer than 5 promising oportunites have come my way. It figures, as soon as I take a long term job (W2, not 1099 or c2c) that other options come out of the woodwork. Extensions and increased hours at me current contract. A data center move with CSC (love those, I'm good at it and it has a set end date). A systems engineering lead with the direct competition of the company I'll be working for on Monday (slightly more senior role to boot... DOH!). A data center manager job... SAN/VMWare engineer... All promising, but I won't be pursuing any of them. I've placed my bets and am going to ride it out for a minimum of 6 months. More likely a year or more. My strategy/thinking there is an idea for another post.
Anyway, good luck out there...
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