Friday, October 31, 2008

My Job Hunting

I got laid off 2 months ago. It was at the wrong time. Job market was really slow. Even though the $700 billion bailout plan was put into action. Guess what, I just bought a house last February and most of my savings went with it. Even better, COMCAST didn't fix my internet connection for almost 4 months now and was threatened for a disconnect of service and asked to still pay my balance even though I've never used their service. So my job hunting went more interesting.

Luckily, the library was just 3 miles away from my place and they've got great free wireless internet connection. From then on I became a full time job seeker for a software developer position. Give or take, there's probably about 200 resumes I sent out. About 5% of them responded. Only Noetix and TexScan setup for an interview. None of them gave a job offer. Frustration kicked in. But my hopes are up. Indeed.

This week has been pretty interesting. I've had a chance to be phone screened and personally interviewed by IHG and McKesson. IHG didn't work out. McKesson seems to be positive. The Director's decision will be made middle of next week (....crossing my fingers).

My favorite question I've been asked was if you have two coins in your pocket and one them is not a quarter, what is the other coin? Yes. You got it. Could be anything. I got it too.

I think the way how it works is that you need to find your interests, think where it fits and feel the people you will work with in the future. It always works. Not only in your favor, but bothways.

2 comments:

Cory Wheeler said...

I stumbled across your blogs on the net, don't ask how... I think I was reading an article or post on LinkedIn and you had replied. Good to find fellow software developers in Atlanta, and glad to see you landed a job at Internap. I want to say that I've known someone that has worked there before, but can't remember who. Anyways, just saying hello, and wanted to say thanks for your IT blog, you've got some good stuff up there. Take Care.

desert_fox said...

Hi Cory. I think it was a pleasant coincidence that you found my blogsite. Yea it was rough last year finding a job and finally landed at Internap. They're a great company. Been enjoying it. Thank you for taking time to go over my posts and if you have some spare time to kill would love you to have visit my other blog which is technical - http://codecrawler.blogspot.com/

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