Re: job-hunt weirdness

Subject: Re: job-hunt weirdness
From: Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:37:12 -0500

Good point about the timing at each position. I got a serious "ding" for
that recently in an interview.

Current job - moved back to the area to help my aging, ill parents, so left
the last job.
Previous job - company taken over by the federal government and closed.
Job before previous job - budget cuts meant that one person, out of six,
kept a job. Whole dept. was gutted.
Job before previous job - contract position taken after previous
company--wait for it--pulled an "Enron" and was delisted from the
stock exchange, and yes, they were closed by federal regulators.

It would be funny if the same thing had not happened to so many other
people.

PT

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:

> What industry are you in that people list their salaries in their
> resumes or cover letters?
>
> In the software industry in the SF Bay Area, that's not really a
> significant factor. You have to offer a competitive compensation
> package to get good writers, and there's no reason to pay more than
> the going rate, so salaries don't vary a hell of a lot. In this
> economy, any sensible person is probably willing to take a cut.
>
> In the software industry, if someone's had a lot of jobs in a
> relatively short time, that's not necessarily a good reason to toss
> the resume. I lost three jobs in three years because go out of
> business in three years. I hired someone who'd had that happen five or
> six times in as many years, and as I expected from his clips he was a
> great hire.
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Dana Worley<dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 09, 2009, Peter Neilson wrote:
> >
> > ... if you've had 6 jobs in the last 5 years, and the job I'm hiring for
> has a
> > substantial learning curve, you'll be tossed into the "no" pile. If you
> made $100K at your last
> > three jobs, and the job I am hiring for is significantly less, you'll be
> tossed into the "no" pile. ...
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References:
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Erik Hare
RE: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Peter Neilson
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Dana Worley
Re: job-hunt weirdness: From: Robert Lauriston

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