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RE: Job Market - Same or Worse Than Before DotCom Mania?
Subject:RE: Job Market - Same or Worse Than Before DotCom Mania? From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:12:36 -0400
>From what I've seen on monster.com, a couple of other job boards, and
regional STC job boards, the market is much worse in the Northeast than it
was 18 months ago. The market is not dead, but the number of jobs is way
down and layoffs are happening. Some colleagues on the West Coast gave me a
head's up about 12 months ago and our market has gone the same way as
theirs.
The market is by no means dead. There are jobs. There are just fewer jobs,
you have to work harder to find the jobs, and the competition for the jobs
is stiffer.
Best regards,
Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Byfield [SMTP:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
> I don't think anyone would claim that the job market in North America is
> worse
> than it was about 14 months ago. However, is it genuinely bad? Or has it
> simply
> gone back to what it was before the dotcom mania, and only seems worse
> because
> things were so good last year?
>
> Based on what I've seen recently of the local market in Vancouver, Canada,
> and
> what I've heard from e-mail acquaintances across the continent, I suspect
> that
> it only seems worse. Part of the reason seems to be that people are
> relying more
> on job sites and technology sites for their job hunts than on contacting
> companies themselves.
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