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Perry Winkle · 03-01-2007, 10:25 AM

I really hate looking for a job.

Supposedly there is a shortage of IT workers, something like 40% of new IT jobs go unfilled each year?

I'm a competent programmer, but I may not know the language they want me to use. It's the programming skill, not a particular language skill-set, that they should hire for.

I have 5+ years of near full-time programming experience (between part-time work and a full-time CS course-load), but I'm seriously going to have to look at entry level jobs.

Since 95%+ of the code I've written is proprietary and I haven't done hobby coding in a long time (since before I started college), I don't really have a portfolio to speak of.

I hope this post is incoherent enough for you...

03-01-2007, 10:25 AM	#6
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	I really hate looking for a job. Supposedly there is a shortage of IT workers, something like 40% of new IT jobs go unfilled each year? I'm a competent programmer, but I may not know the language they want me to use. It's the programming skill, not a particular language skill-set, that they should hire for. I have 5+ years of near full-time programming experience (between part-time work and a full-time CS course-load), but I'm seriously going to have to look at entry level jobs. Since 95%+ of the code I've written is proprietary and I haven't done hobby coding in a long time (since before I started college), I don't really have a portfolio to speak of. I hope this post is incoherent enough for you...