RE: Database Job Survey

I respect your cynicism ;-). We're looking at a news feed with 5000 to 8000 postings a day. A lot of things can be true about that feed at the same time. For that reason, I think an engine like robojob can't claim to be more than a measure of the "interest level" for various technologies. I think it is kind of interesting to put numbers on those interest levels. Certainly recruiters have multiple goals, but we can remind ourselves that they don't actually make a buck until they match a candidate with a job. So, while they might be fishing for candidates, they are fishing for what they consider "high quality" candidates. For them, "high quality" means somebody they can place easily. I think it serves engineers to know what skills are placed easily. John http://www.robojob.com On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Rekaish Bhardwaj wrote: > my only comment is that from past experience, the so called jobs on offer > are just a method that agencies use to get > more CV's onto their databases. > I don't know what it is that you are trying to achieve but looking at job > sites I'm sure is not going to be an accurate picture > of what is going on. > > I would have thought that a general rule of thumb would be: > Do not trust anything that job agencies say/do. > And since these daily job listings consist primarily of entries by agencies > then clearly these sites are not to be trusted either. > > That doesn't just apply to the process of looking for a job but also when > there is in fact a real job, then the agencies will say/do anything to fill > the vacancy. They are not the most objective/honourable people about. Most > of them have relatives working for > Estate Agencies. (Same principle, just different people getting screwed) > > Regards > Rekaish > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Jensen [SMTP:jjens@primenet.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 2:34 PM > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Database Job Survey > > > > I've set up a search engine to crunch the daily job listings from > > misc.jobs.offered and misc.jobs.contract. I'm hoping that with > > cross-postings and such they'll be a representative sample of the job > > market. I'm currently counting references to Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, > > IBM DB2, Informix and Powerbuilder. I build a daily bar graph of the > > results: > > > > http://www.robojob.com/data.html > > > > I'd be interested in your feedback and suggestions. > > > > John >