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Re: Job Market - Same or Worse Than Before DotCom Mania?
Subject:Re: Job Market - Same or Worse Than Before DotCom Mania? From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:18:15 -0700
Lurker writer wrote:
> I call a 90% decrease in projected number of technical writers (for IT) a
> precipitous drop. From my visits to job sites, I know there are far fewer
> being adversited/promoted than there were 14 months ago. I used to get calls
> from recruiters at least every other week when I was working in dot-com
> heaven (1-99 to 8-00). Since December, I haven't heard from one.
Just to give these figures some context, what sort of drop was there in other
high-tech jobs? Some companies consider writers a frill, so I'd expect the drop
to be greater than for other jobs, but I admit that I find even your corrected
figure somewhat unlikely. Maybe writers were somehow reclassified, or divided
into more than one category.
No offense intended, please understand, but the figure is way more than any I've
every heard, so I'm puzzled by it.
I've had fewer calls from recruiters in the last eight months, too. Even so, I
usually get a call every 2-3 weeks.
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