Observations From A Recent Career Fair
About two weeks ago I worked a booth at recent Chicago Dice Career fair. There were may 15 other companies with booths there. This fair was devoted towards job seekers who considered themselves technical or software development related. This fair was interesting to me because it gave a real sense about where the economy is and what types of people are looking for jobs and what types of people are not looking for a job. The good news is (based on my observations) is that if you are a good solid software developer you are employed and not looking. Te bad news is that if you are a Project Manager (PM) you are out there looking for new gig and you are not alone. I must have had at least 80 people in a 4 hour period ask if my employer was looking for a Project Manager. I would tell them that we are looking for developers or sysadmins and they would frown. I guess they were hearing that a lot.
What does this say about the economy? To me it says that we are in the very early stages of a slow down or recession. It seems that companies are just starting to trim the fat (Project Management) and have decided to keep the meat (developers). This also means that there possible could be more fat trimming and even meat trimming in the near future, and that we haven’t even started to see the effects of this recession or coming recession.
As always keep your resume polished and ears to the ground.
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