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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 302535" data-attributes="member: 548">EDIT - Here I did up this big, steam-blowing rant about myself, and I forget to Congratulate the One that Escaped!  Bad, James, really bad! Well, Congratulations!WARNING:  Rant from person good at work, baaad at job hunting!  At least I didn't get my training from anyone calling themselves Chubb...My IT pain's running 14 months now, with 0 interviews during that time.  I've had bad times before, but this complete lack of interviews puzzles me.  I'm starting to think that:(1) Online job applications are 100% worthless - they're going to someone's /dev/null (see, I know UNIX!).  Except the people trying to sell you resume/interview books who, of course, will spot your online resume within a week of posting it.(2) My resume is insufficient to breach the "HR Wall".  Currently I'm not sure if it's my resume, or if HR has been ordered to build extraordinarily high walls lately.  I've noticed many job ads have moved all their "plusses" into their "requireds".  I wonder how many companies consider that queries with 8-10 AND's in them tend to come up empty.(3) I'm competing with 5,000+ ex-Avaya employees (fortunately not including my friend Scott, whose programming ability humbles me).(4) It's a really, really good thing I saved up $20K just in case something like this would happen!My last two jobs both came "out of the blue", from a totally unexpected direction (one from a resume delivered to a guard shack outside the company, one from a contracting firm who had a 2.5 year-old resume).  While I'd like to think I'm a good worker any sane IT employer would want, I'll accept luck too!</blockquote>

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