RE: CALL CENTER REP JOB IN CA

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~em> wrote:
> I am very desperate, but this is too far away (2 hours or more) for $12.00 
> an hour, plus $6.00 a day on BART, plus a variable schedule.
> 
> The temp places say that the job market is still pretty tight in CA.  In 
> order to get temp assignments, you have to have some very specific skills 
> that they want.  General intelligence and general tranferrable skills just 
> doesn't do it.
> 
> Since my tech skills are now 3 years old, I don't think there is any point 
> in posting a tech resume online.  In fact, I now realize that, if I didn't 
> find a job the first 3 months (6 months max), it was unlikely I would ever 
> get a similar tech job.  And finding one during the dismal 2001/2002 period 
> made it almost impossible, unless my skills had been cutting edge, which 
> coming from Target, they were not.  The hardware I used is not even 
> supported by Sun anymore, plus Solaris is at version 10 now (8 was out in 
> 2001).  Sun is trying to push Solaris now as open source, but its main value 
> is running high-end SPARC servers, with support from Sun.  Linux and Windows 
> cover the rest much better.  Unix sales dropped 28% from 2000 to 2002, and 
> probably even more in the last two years.   Your skills in programming may 
> not be so dependent on on the time element, but I was wondering what your 
> main problem was in interviewing.  Was it just because you didn't have some 
> very specific skills they needed?

It's hard to know.  Because they are liable to lawsuits, they usually either
don't say or just say "we found someone with a background closer to the job
requirements".

> Or did the time out of work have 
> anything to do with it?

I'm not sure.  It would probably be impossible to know at the individual level.

I frequently get e-mails for positions outside of Ca.  According to
that skillproof.com site, Wash DC & NYC have been generating a lot of IT jobs.  Anyway...