What's happened to the market?

[Shimano105]

Been looking for over a month now and not a sniff.

Usually I don't mind the time off but now I'm getting worried

[sunnysan]

Skills

What are your skills?

[DimPrawn]

The market has never been the same since Arthur died and Mark caught HIV.

[Shimano105]

VB/SQL stuff. Not .NET yet - can't see the point of spending 6 months learning it if I haven't got enough experience in it to land an interview.

[DimPrawn]

10 year old MS technology. Hmmmmm, no wonder........

Do what I did about 3+ yrs ago. Pay for several .NET courses (I did 15 days of pure classroom training) and then sit and pass every .NET cert going and then get a lowish paid contract to get your foot in the door.

Costly but worth it in the long run.

PS. Do the courses in .NET V2.0 and VS.NET 2005, SQL Server 2005 if you can find them.

Good luck.

[Shimano105]

Thanks Dim, looks like I need to get wiv it!

[BlasterBates]

I thought you were good at blagging Shimano...



Works for me


* I'll refrain from gloating over the fact that the market has never been better and I'm inundated with offers, and that real professionals keep themselves up to date *

[rootsnall]

DimPrawn, who did you do the classroom training with !?

[AtW]

I thought summer, particularly July-August were particularly poor for recruitment?

[Chico]

Shimano

recommend that you broaden you skillset as there are a lot of contracts out there and I know in my last few projects there has been a shortage of good technical people. As to what you should focus not sure but I imagine there others best placed to comment on that.