Original Networking Support thread for the unemployed

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Ender510
Where I work, PeopleSoft is looking for experienced PS Consultants. If there are any, send me a PM.

Thanks for posting Ender.

 

[xospec1alk]

Im graduating in June looking for a job in NYC....not tto much experience in programming, but that is my first love. i've been working helpdesk the last 2 years and hating it...

so....if anyone has the hook up....

 

[AmigaMan]

All NC (Raleigh/Durham) folks, if you're interested in working for a bank in the IT department, then look at these:

Server System Support
Description:
Coordinates the review and analysis of all environmental software installed and determines optimum configuration and resource required. Coordinates, analyzes, changes, and enhances new software releases issued by the manufacturer to determine the impact on existing production systems. Conducts periodic training classes on new technologies, performance, monitoring techniques, efficiencies and hardware used. Must have extensive knowledge of Novell 3.12, 4.11, 5.0 and NetWare 6 Administration, Citrix Server, NT 4 and Windows 2000 Server, TCP/IP and IPX/SPX protocol, and Microsoft SNA server.

Requirements:
Candidate must have either a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical training and 5-6 years experience. Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Candidate must be available to work after hours, weekends and be on call for after-hours support.

Database Admin Position filled
Description:
The Database Administrator I serves as a resource during and after the implementation of the company?s database-centric application software systems. May work independently or as a part of a team consisting of Project Leaders, Business Analysts, Programmers, Programmer Analysts and Users to meet the company?s goals through the analysis, design, implementation and use of application software. Provides support for both IT and Corporate projects. Possess a working knowledge base of several assigned applications. Experience (2-3 years) with maintaining mid-size Data Warehouses based on Oracle running on UNIX. Experience writing PL/SQL and UNIX Shell scripts. Experience with Fiserv InformEnt software would be a major plus.

Requirements:
Work Experience: 2 years minimum experience as a Database Administrator. Successful track record with project implementations as a Database Administrator. Sustained exceptional SOP rating scores. Evidence of technical analysis skills, including database performance tuning, database design, and systems analysis. Minimum of good to outstanding performance reviews as a Database Administrator. Education Preferred - Bachelor Degree (such as Business, Math, or Computer Science) or Associate Degree (such as Microcomputer Applications, Computer Operations or Data Processing) acceptable with 5 additional years related work experience. If no degree, 8 years related work experience.

Programmer Analyst
Description:
Candidates should have a minimum of 3 years programming experience in COBOL, MVS/LCL and some experience in banking with EasyTrieve and CICS. Alltel experience in general a plus.

Requirements:
High school diploma required. Excellent written, communication and time management skills required.

PM your resume and I'll forward to HR for you.

 

[dmcowen674]

Thanks for the great post Amigaman.

I thought there were a couple of people here from the Raleigh area, here is a a great chance to be first one to land a position from Networking on here, let's make it a success

 

[Beau]

I'm looking for a position in the Salt Lake/Provo, Utah area. My resume is available for download here. Mainly looking for either full time network adminitration or website development, or contract work. Rates are negotiable.

 

[Pepo1]

did any of you try Huminity? http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/25682 they claim that it will "form a global map of connections". Any experiences?

 

[compudog]

Originally posted by: Beast1284
Sort of the same thing was started here but did not stay up to date very long. I wonder if whoever ran that site would want to update it more or maybe we could get a sticky or something.

I am still interested in keeping the "Tech Referral List" up and running, and will update it. I think it would be a fantastic and valuable resource for those looking for work. The intention of the list in it's genesis was if you knew someone in Raliegh and they had computer problems, and you lived in Norfolk, you're not going to drive out to fix it. So you could look on the list to see who is in the Raliegh area and PM them and see if they would be interested in looking at the problem. Kind of simplistic, but it could serve a greater good. PM me or email me and I will gladly update the list and turn it into something worthwhile.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Not really looking for anything at the moment, but you know what they say...you're always looking.

School.
I'm 21, located in southern Indiana. I will be finishing my BS in Comp Science (emphasis in Math/Science) with a minor in Math a year from now. Considering going for Masters in it but I'm not quite sure how much it would benefit me.

Job Experience.
Working part time as a helpdesk operator for a little over 1.5 years now at a hospital.
Experience with AS/400, other job responsibilities than the normal helpdesk operation include: tape backups, software backups, PC/network maintenence when on-call personel are either too far away, have access to fix it myself, or they can walk me through it over the phone.

Working part time/full time as a web designer/web application programmer for about 1 year now.
Examples of sites I've worked on can be seen at:
Univerity of Louisville Music Department
The Jazz Artist (including all 19 artist sites). Latest project was the calendar.
Jiggawatts personal site, haven't done much with

And of course, just like many here I have a sort of side business building/fixing computers.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I just graduated from GA Tech with a BS in Management and minors in Marketing and German. I do have some programming experience, however (Pascal, Visual Basic, C++) and can also work in Dreamweaver and PhotoShop. I've even done some LAN administration. My work experience includes a year at Delta Air Lines' e-Business department. My English and German resumes can be read at my web site, ThreeWood.com.

Edit: I am looking for work in the Atlanta area, West Coast, or even Germany.

 

[michaelh20]

Any Minnesota people here?

Quite a few jobs lately posted on the University of Minnesota TC area...

most require experience

University of MN jobs


[Recent Csci B.A. Graduate / Minneapolis / Green --> Needs on the job experience ]

 

[Lucky]

keep your hopes up I just was offered a job this morning after a year of being unemployed.

 

[kendogg]

I am also looking for a position in the Orange county area (CA) Im planning on starting school in january. I hate growing up

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: Lucky
keep your hopes up I just was offered a job this morning after a year of being unemployed.

congratulations!

i think things may be revving up just a little - maybe people can hire at the beginning of the year

 

[arcain]

Alright.. might as well add myself to the list. Here's an abbreviated version of my resume:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer for Openwave Systems Inc. (5/01-10/02, laid off)
Server development in C/C++ for Solaris and AIX. Ported project from Solaris to AIX. Was also responsible for installation scripting and packaging.

Senior Coder for High Performance Internet Group, Computer Science Department, UCLA (6/00-3/01, graduated)
Worked with graduated researchers working on alternative TCP congestion control algorithms. Implemented algorithms into Linux kernel. Developed tools to help in testing of algorithms and also designed test network. Also provided technical support for the lab (Windows 2000 and Linux) and created some webpages (HTML, PHP).

OTHER EXPERIENCE
WIN32 API, Winsock, PalmOS

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics from UCLA

LOOKING
Unix software development (preferrably server side). But am also looking at other entry level development positions (Windows, etc). Prefer to stay in Los Angeles or Orange County.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Lucky
keep your hopes up I just was offered a job this morning after a year of being unemployed.

Congrats

It does seem like to be more real and decent openings showing up in the online job sites too.

Hopefully it will be a better 2003 for all.

Keep this going everybody, it's very encouraging. Thanks to all posting about jobs at your Company or in your areas.

Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas everybody

 

[KC5AV]

Merry Christmas everyone... good luck finding jobs in the New Year. Maybe things will start looking up.

 

[flexy]

hi,

i am in the chicago area and i am looking for a programmer/admin job for an eternity already . My last job 'til April 2002 was for an ISP.

I am an VBScript/VB 5&6, ASP, Access97 (VBA), SQL programmer, (some JAVA and C too), proficient in all flavors of Win, IIS 4.0, user management and much more.
(I can send my resume to anyone interested

I am looking for webpages and/or other resources where i can find offers and information about local Chicagoland companies.

greetings and merry x-mas !

Edit:
I am not 'unemployed' right now...i am tempting (means: NO benefits, NO sick days, NO health insurance, crappy pay), doing some very, very low level non computer related job.
With me (in the same department) at this (very big and well known) company M******* are at least a dozen, all former software engineers and programmers who now do all the same lousy job...barely able to pay their bills, and *dare you*, come a day you might be sick, need medical attention etc...
And, despites all that, i am even glad that i have THIS job because i know it could be even worse, meaning: NO job at all or a job which is/pays even worse.

To cite a co-worker of mine: "The economy is so bad right now that only the strong survive" ... and "being strong" in this case means that you might literally bust your a** doing some "not so good" jobs for pay you never thought you'll ever work for..and of course keep up the positive thinking, sending out resumes, look around for other jobs...

greetings

 

[shurato]

In Baltimore, MD...out of a real steady job for a little over a year. Seems entry level positions, alot of people want too much experience and certs. Ive only been only been contacted once out of all the resume's ive sent out and it wasnt even an interview. It was a pre-interview test....I guess i didn't pass. Hopeless in Baltimore....

 

[mcveigh]

if anyone is an experienced Exchange administrator, or has VPN knowledge, or knows Outlook in an exchange enviornment , I might have need for consulting with one in the future.

email or PM me if anyone is interested.


Seth

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: mcveigh
if anyone is an experienced Exchange administrator, or has VPN knowledge, or knows Outlook in an exchange enviornment , I might have need for consulting with one in the future.
email or PM me if anyone is interested.
Seth

Happy Holidays and Thanks for posting Seth.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: shurato
In Baltimore, MD...out of a real steady job for a little over a year. Seems entry level positions, alot of people want too much experience and certs. Ive only been only been contacted once out of all the resume's ive sent out and it wasnt even an interview. It was a pre-interview test....I guess i didn't pass. Hopeless in Baltimore....

Hang in there Shurato, that is a BS smokescreen. The reality is that there is a ton of unemployed Pros that were making $80K-100K and better now taking the Entry level $20-35K positions.

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: cchen
Everyone here is IT? I'm looking for a summer internship in banking/finance

You in Columbia in NYC, Banking / Finance along with Telecom are the hardest HIT industries for the last 2 years, whether you are financial in them or IT in them, same thing. You better off looking outside of Banking/Finance, might be easier. Be happy enough you are in school, and in Columbia I guess. NYC has like 8pct unemployment overall, National is 6pct.

 

[Steve819]

Originally posted by: abc

Originally posted by: cchen
Everyone here is IT? I'm looking for a summer internship in banking/finance

You in Columbia in NYC, Banking / Finance along with Telecom are the hardest HIT industries for the last 2 years, whether you are financial in them or IT in them, same thing. You better off looking outside of Banking/Finance, might be easier. Be happy enough you are in school, and in Columbia I guess. NYC has like 8pct unemployment overall, National is 6pct.

Speaking as someone looking for a business type job - where should I be looking?

Steve

 

[weezie]

Anyone looking for work in Louisiana? The company I work for will be hiring 1 or 2 people in the next few months. Basic PC troubleshooting/printer service/phone service. The pay isn't great but it's steady work. PM me for info.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: shurato
In Baltimore, MD...out of a real steady job for a little over a year. Seems entry level positions, alot of people want too much experience and certs. Ive only been only been contacted once out of all the resume's ive sent out and it wasnt even an interview. It was a pre-interview test....I guess i didn't pass. Hopeless in Baltimore....

Hang in there Shurato, that is a BS smokescreen. The reality is that there is a ton of unemployed Pros that were making $80K-100K and better now taking the Entry level $20-35K positions.

exactly - why worry about training a new employee when you can have an experienced pro for the same price?

anybody see the news.com article that said approximately 30% of it employees plan to change jobs next year? i wonder where they think they can go...