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[daveh at bishca.state.vt.us (Dave hardy)]

[And I guess I'll go second, for lack of anything really meaningful to do here today at this lame, dead-end "job."]

[Agreed on Winter-Wyman;  also had good luck (years ago) with Tech Specialists.]

[Years in the industry:  10]

[Resumes sent out over last 18 months:  A couple of dozen (I'm in north-central VT;  there's only so many shops around here.]

[F2F interviews:  8]

[Phone interviews: 1]

[Number of interviews it took to get this job three years ago:  4 (driving 250 miles each way between here and MA, and to this day they still don't know what to do with me or why I'm here.]

[Email replies to my inquiries concerning open positions:  3]

[Replies or even acknowledgements of subsequent email thank-you notes and inquiries: 0]

[Number of offers received to date: 0]

[Anecdote:  My pay grade was knocked down by HR a step as I arrived here;  the person who would have been my manager had left;  two weeks later the only other IT person in the building left; my new manager knows as much about IT as I know about organic chemistry; they had me scrambling to learn Oracle for a year to run it on NT and then said they'd changed their minds; forget it.  Oh yeah;  and they dumped VMS, the o.s. with which I'd mainly worked over the years.  Why am I still here?  To pay our family's taxes, currently estimated at around 40% of household income, up just a bit from the 5% of 1960, when my late dad supported a wife and five kids by himself.]







> As a contractor I chose my head hunters carefully. I avoid a few of them
> like the plague.

OK!  So let's all start swapping notes!  Bonus points for anecdotes.

I'll go first:

------------- Good
KForce
Winter Wyman

------------- Bad
Atlantis Partners (shudder)
Triad Personnel Services (eeek!)

STATS TO DATE:
Years of experience in the industry:          15
Resumes sent out since the end of June:       81
Face interviews with companies:                2
Phone interviews with companies:               1

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DDDD   David Kramer                   http://thekramers.net 
DK KD
DKK D
DK KD  Pretense and adversity are inversely proportional;
DDDD   Adversity reveals the true nature of all things.

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Dave Hardy
Systems Manager/DBA
Vermont Health Care Administration
89 Main Street
Drawer 20
Montpelier, VT 05620-3101
802-828-2914
FAX: 802-828-2949
daveh at bishca.state.vt.us

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