Tom,

I was thinking about you yesterday. I work in entertainment and was reading Daily Variety yesterday. There was a review of an art house movie called something like "From Dot Boom to Eviction". Traces the history of the Dot Bust in SV. Got good reviews too.

I think the current state for you and me probably has something to do with the VFP market in general. I had no VFP on my resume for the last year when I was looking. But the first VFP interview I had in Sept. they had one of the programmers come in and give me a quiz. Basically the list of questions that have been floating around for the last couple years. I knew the answers, not cause I memorized the test, but it's easy and the questions aren't super detailed. I was told that out of 15 interviews, I was the first one to get more then 3 questions right.

I don't know how you could call yourself a VFP programmer if you don't know the difference between Nodefault and Dodefault, or if you can't list 2-3 Books or Magazines on VFP, but noone they interviewed had to date.

Of course I didn't get that particular job cause I came thru a recruiter and they were too cheap to pay recruiting fees.

PF



>Perry;
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>I should write a book about the job market in Silicon Valley, from a historical and current perspective. Would you believe within the last three work days I have received two calls from companies I interviewed with almost two years ago. These are VFP positions and I was told “You are the ideal candidate”! This must be the latest “buzz words”. Newspapers and Internet advertised jobs are a joke in most cases. Headhunters for the most part are sick and HR departments lack a sense of professionalism. Also just received a call from a head hunter from a two year old resume. What gives? I know! I am working and people are interested in me. If you do not have a job - good luck!
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>Last year at this time we had at least one major Job Fair a week in Silicon Valley. Things are very quiet now. No more biplanes flying banners over head or trucks running up and down the streets advertising job fairs. No more tv commercials, etc. If you are working – good. If not – pray!
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>Tom
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>>I've seen the "technology section is disappearing" refrain from many a major newspaper this year.
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>>I'm not debating at all that IT jobs have almost disappeared, or so it seems. I was just stating that Dice.com is not a good place to visit to determine stats.
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>>While I was unemployeed this summer I was going weeks, if not months at a time without a call, let alone an interview. I too was used to getting at minimum one call a week as soon as my resume hit the streets.
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>>It's obvious that the current state of the economy is affecting them. I've seen discussions about them reposting ads from many months ago, or making up ads. I've not heard or seen this practice from other sites. So to get a could count of stats I would gather them from another site.
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>>>A gentleman at worked pointed out to me that the Washington Post used to have a separate technology classified section and now they are combining it in to the regular classifieds.
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>>>Not like the 'old' days when I would get a call once a week for a job.
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