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<blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 2181051" data-attributes="member: 7396">I'm another in the &quot;just got a CS degree and can't get an entry-level job&quot; group. It's been about a year now, and I'm currently doing a temp job for overnight data entry, just to get some money coming. I haven't had all the bad experiences with headhunters and the like, every time I've gone to a &quot;recruiter&quot; it's been another term for someone who does placement for a temp agency. Even then, in the IT world, you can't even get contract work without previous experience. The closest I came was dialing into servers and retrieving files that should've been uploaded automatically, but weren't. It was trained-monkey stuff, the kind of thing I could have done in high school with no computer degree at all.So I'm starting to get pretty irritated by it all, really. I'm pretty close to the point of just grabbing whatever I can in some company and hoping that an IT job opens up- I don't know how much hiring of IT personnel is done from other, internal departments vs. how much is done through outside sources (I imagine it would depend on the company). I'd also thought about doing the Best Buy route (I assume you're talking about the repair shops, Kluge?), but we had no hardware courses at the University at all- everything was programming and design. And I really don't see one of those jobs opening up from a position where I'm basically just defragging people's drives. After all the time I've spent in school, I'd like to do something at least vaguely related to my degrees, so that I know I'm getting something out of that 28 grand I owe the government.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Byrons_Ghost, post: 2181051, member: 7396"] I'm another in the "just got a CS degree and can't get an entry-level job" group. It's been about a year now, and I'm currently doing a temp job for overnight data entry, just to get some money coming. I haven't had all the bad experiences with headhunters and the like, every time I've gone to a "recruiter" it's been another term for someone who does placement for a temp agency. Even then, in the IT world, you can't even get contract work without previous experience. The closest I came was dialing into servers and retrieving files that should've been uploaded automatically, but weren't. It was trained-monkey stuff, the kind of thing I could have done in high school with no computer degree at all. So I'm starting to get pretty irritated by it all, really. I'm pretty close to the point of just grabbing whatever I can in some company and hoping that an IT job opens up- I don't know how much hiring of IT personnel is done from other, internal departments vs. how much is done through outside sources (I imagine it would depend on the company). I'd also thought about doing the Best Buy route (I assume you're talking about the repair shops, Kluge?), but we had no hardware courses at the University at all- everything was programming and design. And I really don't see one of those jobs opening up from a position where I'm basically just defragging people's drives. After all the time I've spent in school, I'd like to do something at least vaguely related to my degrees, so that I know I'm getting something out of that 28 grand I owe the government. [/QUOTE]

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