Re: OT -- Boston Globe job listings

I don't think it has as much to do with no available positions (although that is part of the answer) as most medium to large companies don't use newspaper ads anymore. They are using the internet (especially for technical jobs) and are signed up with Monster, BrassRing, etc. to do their recruiting for them from their own company web sites. I've seen this definite shift here in the Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN area over the past couple of years. Most of these companies also provide e-mail service that sends you an email when a job is posted that meets your specs. So, why waste your time on newspaper ads that only appear every Sunday?

My $0.02 worth,

Ken Janusz, CPIM

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> I've been keeping an eye on the Boston Globe's Oracle DBA job postings,
two
> years ago it wasn't uncommon to see eight or more per week, now I tend to
> see one or two, or none.
>
> For a while they also announced big IT job fairs, I don't know if they
still
> do that or how successful they now are.
>
> The market has really shrunk in two years!
>
> There can't be a huge glut of DBAs out there looking for work... It must
be
> a reduction in demand because companies are not making big infrastructure
> changes anymore.
>
> Patrice.
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