RE: Toronto Economy

Subject: RE: Toronto Economy
From: Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- NILS -dot- COM>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:31:35 -0700

In the last 6 weeks I've had a dozen calls and 4 interviews and missed each
of them by "that much". (Well, I would have gotten one of them, but at the
last minute, the CEO decided all the contracting in my resume meant I'm
unstable.). I think the competition is still too tight. Too few jobs, too
many writers to choose from/.

Today I got a reply to a resume I sent out yesterday, just the usual form
letter to say we got it, we'll call maybe later. The hiring person
(manager, HR, unknown)for some reason not only did a single mailing to all
his applicants (which is fine), he put all our addresses in an open cc:
list. 50 names.

Things getting better? Not in L.A.



Maggie Secara
NILS Publishing Company
(818) 734-3570

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karen E. Black [mailto:kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:54 PM
>To: TECHWR-L
>Subject: Toronto Economy
>
>
>In the last 2 weeks I have received 4 calls from recruiters
>(down from 4 per
>day in Feb. and March, and up from none since May).
>
>They are looking for contract tech writers in the Toronto area. I only
>worked one 1 contract and am now full time (I LIKE benefits and paid
>holidays, and paying LOTS AND LOTS OF TAXES).
>
>Time of year? Economy picking up?
>
>Karen Black
>Captive Technical Writer
>www.dhltd.com

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