[sclug] Any work going?

[martin summers]

Hello,

I have also been looking for work for quite some time in the SCLUG area, 
and it is quite slow at the moment - however, I found Oxfordshire area 
to be a little more active and have just secure a contract in this area 
for 6 months. (whoopee !)

The new contract I have involves working with just about every flavour 
of *nix going - Linux included as well as Windows admin , which is my 
weaker area. A bit of development as well, and quite a bit of 
documentation as well.
My background was working for an IT security resller in post sales 
support, and previous to that, working as a project manager and enigeer 
in the BBC in Caversham.....

 From what I have observed in the job market at the moment, it favours 
"generalist" skills rather than specific skills , regardless of if you 
are a developer or a sys-admin type person. Also, by the time most of 
the jobs are advertised on the prominent web sites, they have usually 
already gone, so to even get your foot in the door, you have to approach 
the agencies directly first, otherwise you may find that you apply for 
lots of jobs, but get no reply ( I can speak from experience about this !).

One last point worthy of note - Job hunting is extremely time consuming. 
To have any degree of success at the moment, I think it would be 
difficult to find a job while you are currently working - unless your 
current employer lets you have a free reign with your time and the phone 
calls you receive, or you get very lucky ! This is especially true if 
you are thinking of moving into a job which utilises skills you would 
*like* to use and develop, rather than skills you already have.

-Martin Summers



Leon Ward wrote:

>Heh, I think that there is a long list of people looking for new jobs in the
>SCLUG area.
>I have been looking for something new for well over a year, the job market
>in Reading 
>seams dead to me.
>
>Anyway onto my point.
>I am the sysadmin in a windows environment, Linux does play a role and I
>have been using it for years now.
>Obviously I want to move to a company that uses Linux / nix in a heavy way
>so I can get my teeth in deeper.
>
>The people I have met @ the sclug meets seam to come from UNIX backgrounds
>in the 80's and have just moved to Linux.
>Is there anyone here that has recently moved from being a windows admin to a
>linux one in recent years?
>
>Just wondering how you did it, what was your first role?
>
>Any advice?
>
>-Nard
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Daniel Lower [mailto:daniel_lower at yahoo.com]
>>Sent: 28 May 2003 11:06
>>To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
>>Subject: [sclug] Any work going?
>>
>>
>>Hiya,
>>
>>My current contract comes to an end on June 19 anyone know of any
>>nice Linux jobs going?
>>
>>Are there any arsehole employers in Reading or thereabouts that I
>>should be aware of?
>>
>>Skills: Linux Redhat, Suse, Mandrake , Apache, Sendmail, Qmail, DNS,
>>TCP/IP, Samba yada yada yada
>>
>>Languages(Core) most recent first: Java, Perl mod_perl, PHP 3-4, C,
>>C++. 
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
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