I got an email from a headhunter this morning. Like, an actual person (and not an automated troll-bot or anything) with an actual position to fill. I'm not going to send her a resume or anything; I'm happy where I'm at. But you know the sad part? My initial thought on seeing her first email was "So there's this company looking for a dude that can do perl/database stuff, and they haven't been able to fill the position by word of mouth? I wonder what's wrong with/about that company that they can't find anyone to work there..." It's like they have to resort to using a headhunter in order to hire someone. Seems like everyone these days is getting/keeping jobs based on who they've worked with, people they know, etc. as opposed to sending out resumes.
I don't know... we've been looking to fill some slots and the applicants have mostly been fairly sad. I think most of us that are good at what we do are happy where we are. All that seems to be left are too many left-overs from the dot-com bubble that never would've gotten a first job without that bubble to begin with.
Posted by Miguelito at July 6, 2004 4:56 PMYeah, that really makes you wonder about the bubble employee base, huh? The positions we've had to fill at school have had their fair share of the kind of applicant who lists Microsoft Office under the "Technical Skills" portion of their resumes.
Posted by wee at July 7, 2004 10:00 AM