The Black Plague.

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That was almost me.

Just imagine if, instead of impulsively moving to the UK, I'd done the sensible thing and stayed in Australia another year to build my experience points.

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IT Jobs melbourne.

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Heh, I've been keeping an eye out on the resumes that land at work, generally for a job there's about 150 applications. 10 of which probably can handle the job, and out of those about 5 of which we'd want to hire.

Now I'm pretty sure you'd be in that 5 so that's 5 people you would have been competing against not 150.

Heh, from looking at things from the other side of the fence I'm really starting to get the feeling that the whole techwork shortage thing is a myth. Most of the people just need another year or so to get flushed out and we'll be back to normal.

Heh, I honestly expect my next job interview to go something like this.

So what Can you offer us?

In my previous role I assisted in writing up budgets, and purchasing recommendations, did a security check on a badly administered AIX box found an open mail relay on it that I closed off, closed other unessential services with a known history of security holes such as rlogin and recommended that it be replaced with a dedicated switch. I also conducted post mortems on other compromised machines. Regularly recovered data from corrupted Office and Illustrator files by hand editing them, and convinced my superiors to implement an AUP. I supported over 200 users and associated infrastructure in a heterogeneous Macintosh and Windows environment with a variety of servers including OpenBSD, Linux, MacOS, and Netware.

In other roles I have installed and configured the Sony Emotion Engine development environment and programmed for it. I also can code in, Visual Basic, Pascal, Java, C, Objective C and have some exposure to Perl, Ocml, SQL, Postscript, Smalltalk, and Lisp.

I achieved a High Distinction in RMITs Unix Administration course and have worked on Irix, Solaris, and VMS workstations. I have also completed OSX Server administration and advanced project management courses.

I can read a 300 page manual in 3 hours, and can get up to speed on gear or software in about 2 weeks.

In 5 years time I plan to be doing the equivalent or better of your job.

So what interesting technology would I be working with in this job?

But I'm an arrogant workaholic who's discovered the powers inherent in wearing a nice suit.

That and in my current job my interview went something like this "So how do you feel about working with Macs?", "Who's Max?".

But then I also think that 50% of roles in an org seem to largely exist to get in the way of the other 50%.

Bleh.

Re: IT Jobs melbourne.

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Heh, I've been keeping an eye out on the resumes that land at work, generally for a job there's about 150 applications. 10 of which probably can handle the job, and out of those about 5 of which we'd want to hire. Now I'm pretty sure you'd be in that 5 so that's 5 people you would have been competing against not 150.

I do well once I get to interview stage. At the interview, the game is poker. The trick is getting the interview - it's résumé roulette. There is no magic CV; it's numbers, numbers, numbers. I worked out that it took me seven hundred job applications to get six interviews, four of which were in the last two weeks of my search and two of which were the ones that got me my present position.

Bah. My brain is probably scrambled on this subject from the aftereffects of jobhunting :-) If I was actually in Melbourne and an Ericsson retrenchee, I'd have (I hope) saved like a motherfucker for that year so as to move to the UK. And would probably go as quickly as possible. With the magical Two Years of ClearCase under my belt and stuff.

"But I'm an arrogant workaholic who's discovered the powers inherent in wearing a nice suit."

Heh. And I remember when you were meek and mild ...