Re: job market Q4 2009

Subject: Re: job market Q4 2009
From: Steven Gaghan <sgaghan12 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:25:05 -0500

Yeah, I received five phones/emails for the same job with in about fours of
one another, and then another two or three the next day. Most of the
recruiters were not located in the US. It got to the point where the
recruiter would call and read the job description to me, and I would ask
them: "Is this Job with Westinghouse?" "It stopped most of them dead in
their tracks. They were like vultures circling around carrion.
Unfortunately, I was the carrion.



On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:

> There was an article in the NY Times yesterday about how temporary
> agency employees were the fastest-growing category in the Bureau of
> Labor Statistics' November survey:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/business/economy/21temps.html
>
> This certainly matches my experience. I've seen only one or two
> permanent jobs to apply for this quarter. Almost every job posting I
> see is for a temp position, I'm currently working as a temp, and I
> frequently get email from five recruiters from different temp agencies
> for the same gig.
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