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Re: "Urgent" Hiring Practices & lack of candidates
Subject:Re: "Urgent" Hiring Practices & lack of candidates From:Bob Morrisette <writer1 -at- SABU -dot- ENG -dot- SUN -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:29:13 -0700
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:03:17 -0700
> From: Karen Kay <karen -at- WORDWRITE -dot- COM>
> Subject: Re: "Urgent" Hiring Practices & lack of candidates
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>
> Penn Brumm said:
> > I sympathize with Ruth Glasser's comments about hiring engineers and
> > tech writers. Cliches such as the scarcity of teeth in a chicken
> > come to mind. I'm told by reliable sources that, for experienced
> > people, there are approximately 100,000 jobs going unfilled here in
> > Silicon Valley.
>
> I bet 99,000 of those are programming jobs. There aren't nearly that
> many writing jobs advertised *anywhere* in the Bay Area, let along
> just in Silicon Valley.
>
> Karen
> karen -at- wordwrite -dot- com
>
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Only a small percentage of open positions are advertised "anywhere."
We have many openings, but I haven't seen any ads to fill them.
We pay a $1,000 bounty to employees for referrals.
Bob Morrisette
writer1 -at- Eng -dot- Sun -dot- com
