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It's also a matter of the market being saturated with unemployed people with paper certs, genuine competence, and some with both. The company I worked for sold out 5 months ago - I too have been looking ever since. I've made it a point to ask the recruiters/companies how much interest they've had in the position. The /typical/ response is "*gasp*, we've received over 1300 (thirteen hundred) resumes for this position in the past week, I only talk to the people who call to follow-up". Extremely frustrating to say the least. -- Blake Fithen [email protected] www.pobox.com/~fithen > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Avleen Vig > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:39 AM > To: LeBlanc, Jason > Cc: 'Sean Donelan'; [email protected] > Subject: RE: How to get better security people > > > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, LeBlanc, Jason wrote: > > > On that note, Etrade layed off their entire net sec team a > few months back. > > I don't trade there no more. ;) > > Fewer and fewer companies are paying attention to network > security with > the right mindset. They all want peopl who have been in the field for > 7-10+ years, with 10+ years of general systems admin skills. > > I'm 21. I have 5 years of combined network security and sysadmin > experience. No-one is interested. > I spent 5 months looking for a job, applied at at least a few hundred > locations, only to be told each time that I didn't have > enough experience. > > I know around 100 other security admins, and I think 2 have that much > experience. > > It's semi-understandable when a MNC wants that kind of experience, but > when your run of the mill start up wants to too, it gets rather sick. > These people aren't going to get what they're looking for. > They'll realise it too late I guess. > > I dropped out of security and went back to sysadmining. > I prefer the job I have now to any I've had in the past, and > I wouldn't > trade it for a security job with some of these firms in 10 lifetimes. > > -- > Av > Go here, now - http://www.ircnetops.org/smurf > >
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