[PLUG-JOBS] (JOB) Why more contract / temporary positions?

[chris (fool) mccraw]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:56 AM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
> The job market around here isn't exactly
> clamoring for new talent so employers have little incentive to take higher
> risks right now.

Interesting, this isn't my take at all.  I am constantly getting cold
called and emailed by recruiters for full time positions in town,
despite my linkedin profile (the only place i have anything
interesting posted) saying explicitly that I've moved on from IT into
developer support for the time being.

Further, looking at the jobs listings from silicon florist, there are
literally fucktons of positions open in town.  Most are not listed as
"sysadmin" - the world is moving on from that designation from my
point of view.  Pitch yourself as devops, get some modern languages
under your belt (yes, I know shell and perl.  I am the only employee
of my company who has been paid to write perl, and for only one day -
and we have around 220 developers.  We don't look at resumes that
don't have something more modern on them - ruby or python being a
great jumping off spot, though I think Go might turn into the wave of
the future?), and learn a configuration management system (puppet,
chef, cfengine - free to download!) if you don't already know one, and
you should have to beat recruiters off with a stick.  As well, lots of
linux-y jobs aren't posting at all - you have to hunt them out (which
is ridiculous in this day and age, but c'est la vie).  Specifically,
government orgs and nonprofits seem pretty slow to realize that even a
craigslist post is worth a thousand jobs list on
yourorganization.(com|org) that few ever find.

Finally, as was mentioned in this thread, this list isn't the premier
job posting location for even sysadmins, it's just a place a few
recruiters and other hardy souls have found.  I like indeed.com
(disclaimer, many friends work there), but i recommend siliconflorist
to locals.