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Subject:Re: US professional issues From:Bob Morrisette <writer1 -at- SABU -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:57:50 -0700
From the post that started this:
>For example, a local business
>posted a notice for a software job for only 40 minutes on a breakroom
>bulletin board during the usual lunch hour when people were out. This
>was called "a good faith effort to recruit locally."
In Silicon Valley, companies are paying big bucks to find qualified
local people:
Huge ads in the San Jose Mercury and other papers
Ads in professional and technical publications
Billboards along the freeways
Job fairs with over 300 companies attending
Listings with online job web sites
Etc.
The shortage of qualified people is real and the unions
should concentrate on more important issues like why are
most professionals in Silicon Valley not interested in unions.
Bob Morrisette
writer1 -at- sabu -dot- Eng -dot- Sun -dot- com
Speaking only for myself
