The employment situation in the US is looking up, with new unemployment filings down for the third straight week. This is wonderful news, but some people, including some of our fellow Juicers aren’t there yet, or aren’t where they want to be.
If you need a job, or would like to upgrade your current job, let us know in the comments your field and location, and if you know of open or soon-to-be open positions, let us know that information in the thread too. As always, your first stop on a job hunt should be www.usajobs.gov especially if you are a Veteran.
TaMara (BHF)
Well, all I can say is it’s a good thing I decided to go out on my own, because the company I (still) work for part-time is going down due to mismanagement. Sad, but true.
In brighter news, this just showed up in my RSS feed:
Being Biden
Lovely Joe telling us how it is on an official WH feed.
Yutsano
Had an interesting conversation with a tax attorney a few nights ago. He’d been trying to get on with the IRS (go over to the dark side, but we haz cookies!) But he keeps losing out to veterans. I just thought that was interesting.
PS: the feds are still hiring, sequester notwithstanding.
Seanly
Good luck to those job hunting. I know the 7 months I spent on the public dole were some of the worst for me. Now I’m hoping that the Repubs don’t rob the highway trust fund to buttress the military against the sequester cuts.
RE: USAjobs.gov – there are a lot listed there, but I remember there wasn’t too much right down my alley so I think I only through my hat in on 2 or 3 positions. Also, too, every position had the longest application process (although the job I ended up getting was just as involved).
Poopyman
How convenient! I just got home from being laid off. The good news is that
A) Under the company’s severance package I get a week’s pay for every year’s service, so I’ll be paid in full through June, and
B) I’ve already had one interview with a promised technical interview to come.
So I’ll forego the job info until things look dangerous, which would be late April.
I’m hoping I can stay home into April so I can catch up on all the deferred gardening and exterior maintenance, but I’d better be careful what I wish for.
ranchandsyrup
In Orange County area looking for a Sales Engineer/Sales support person, 2 data analysts and an account manager.
In Ann Arbor/Detroit area looking for a Technical Architect.
In Austin, TX area looking for another account manager.
quannlace
Hmmm, there haven’t been many posts by Cole lately. Maybe the new kitten was the tipping point and the animals have finally ganged up on him.
Ed in NJ
Well, as someone who is forced to piece together a living with 4 per diem jobs, I would love to find regular full time work. I am a licensed life and health insurance agent, one of the few out there not raging against ACA. Of course I focus on life, disibility and LTC.
robotswillstealyourjobs
Anybody looking to fill marketing positions in the Chicago area?
Seanly
hmm, maybe instead of blabbing I could post my company’s external job website. I work in the Transportation Business Group for CH2M HILL, an international engineering/construction/environmental consulting firm.
Here’s our external job postings. Apparently, one of our staffing issues is that there aren’t enough qualified staff for many of our internation positions.
I’ve also previously worked for Parsons Brinckerhoff. Here’s their career website.
I’m not going to name or link the firm that let me go back in 2011.
One more edit: both CH2M & PB are very large engineering firms, but they often employ people in many diverse backgrounds – inspectors, all manner of engineers, scientists, business-types, admin & HR, graphic artists, etc. If you don’t have a job, look.
ruemara
I think I’ve just given up. Waiting until something like a clue materializes with regard to my health. On the plus side, the (h)ex has had a successful interview with a government vendor. It makes my leftist heart a little upset, but 6 years without a permajob needs to end like last year. I’m going to concentrate on learning my shiny new software and finishing projects. maybe something will strike someone’s fancy-bam!-instant overnight success.
wmd
The position I was laid off from two weeks ago was posted by my former director last week. Software performance engineering/developer relations for multimedia applications.
I’m finding quite a few other opportunities, believe I’ll be working before WARN act period expires.
Cassidy
CSX is always hiring. They’re based in jacksonville, but they are all over.
Kirk
@Poopyman: No, do not wait till April.
(background: laid off in July of 2008. picked up various one-day and three-day jobs, but nothing enough to re-start unemployment benefits. So basically unemployed for close to five years.)
Go to the unemployment office Monday with your termination letter and the severance letter. You will get zero benefits, but it saves the extra nut-roll if everything goes bad. There are also possible other benefits once registered – no promises, it depends on states among other things. But getting registered matters.
Do not do the “hey, I’ll just vacation for a few weeks” routine. Start now. Given you’ve got some deferred household maintenance go ahead and limit job-hunting to 20 or 30 hours per week instead of full-time 40-50 hours, but still keep hunting. Procrastination is a good way to find yourself in the panic zone.
Luthe
Urban planner with a shiny new MCRP here. Experience with ArcGIS, US Census data, Photoshop, affordable housing, and Excel. Currently in CT, but desperately trying to escape.
demz taters
If the sequester didn’t kill this too, veterans can get help with the federal application process from a Dept. of Ed counselor. The e-mail address is [email protected].
joel hanes
I have an immediate Silicon Valley opening for an engineer who can wrangle perl, perforce, make, a batch queue, and a trouble ticket system in support of a chip design verification group in a Linux environment. Ten years experience with HDL design simulation and excellent analytic and communication skills are required. You must be able to solve your own technical problems from documentation and teach others who can’t (or won’t). C, C++, python, tcl experience a plus.
Chris
Open question for anybody in the Miami area: can you recommend good temp agencies around here? The ones I’ve found online don’t appear to be into the whole “returning phone calls, emails or any form of communication” thing.
Genine
Esurance is hiring. There are a lot of jobs. They’re based in the Bay Area but they have offices in other states.
https://jobs-esurance.icims.com/jobs/intro?hashed=0
Arm The Homeless
The fiance is looking for full time assistant/associate faculty position in English. She is focused on transnational modernism and has been very well published, as well as one book and approval of an entire series on modernism through a publisher that until recently has been known as Continuum.
I have a Masters in Planning, although I would like to work in local/regional/municipal utilities, specifically water resources. Experience in 6Sigma and emergency management with all the attendant FEMA certifications. I also make a mean pot of Joe.
Big R
@joel hanes: Can I get some way to contact you? I’m not even remotely qualified, but I might know someone who is.
northland
One of the PR/Marketing/Advertising companies I do business with in North Dakota has several openings for account coordinators, project managers, and web designers. All in Fargo, ND, which is a pretty decent city if you’re not terribly averse to winter weather.
http://www.flint-group.com/careers.php
Shinobi
@Luthe: If you want to move to Chicago and work in a lame for profit company:
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/sof/3644401048.html
Seanly
@Luthe: See my post #9. I haven’t met many planners in CH2M though I’m sure we have them. I know planning staff is a big component of engineering in PB. There may also be local governments looking for a planner. If you’re willing to move
A couple of caveats for folks who’re looking. When I was let go, I thought it would be short-term. It wasn’t. I also made of the mistake of working with a recruiter. It took me a couple of months to realize that many of the positions he’d allegedly submitted on my behalf were for companies that didn’t accept 3rd party info. He might’ve sent my info in, but most likely it went nowhere. Once I started submitting things on my own, I started getting more hits.
To be fair to the recruiter, he submitted me to a firm I spoke with in the first month. Unfortunately they kept toying with me. They ended up making an offer 6 months later – the same day I got the offer for my current job. My wife & I had soured on them and also figured that while Boise was 6 hours from anywhere, it seemed like a nicer place than metro DC/Alexandria area.
If you do work with a recruiter, they are paid by the firm who hires you. At least that was one thing I already knew.
Last little tid bit – the market place has changed. I never had trouble getting a position before. I should have been much more aggressive in my search and willing sooner to do things like travel on my own dime.
raven
@Arm The Homeless: They use that Lean 6 stuff in FEMA? We had a ceo that was and engineer and he jammed it down people’s throat. Luckily I was considered too old for it to do any good so I dodged it. he left and the whole thing got shit canned. Seemed stupid to me.
joel hanes
@Big R:
my email address is
my last name
follwed immediately by the three-digit number that is twice two hundred seventy seven
followed by dot comcast dot net
LunarG
Anyone in SE Michigan looking for a paralegal? I just completed a bachelor’s in legal assisting, have worked at the Washtenaw county courthouse assisting pro per patrons, and have strong research and writing skills.
LGRooney
Not sure whether this is an internal site only; I have a feeling it is. If it is, I’ll see whether I can find an external link. Go to Job Postings.
This is where I work.
Big R
@joel hanes: I did it wrong. The message bounced. Help a stupid Luddite lawyer out?
Arm The Homeless
@raven: We use the process in many of our smaller sections, like the water quality lab, cross connection control, and industrial pretreatment and aquifer protection. It’s not as easy as simplifying a widget process, there are a lot of parallel actions and seemingly useless processes that have to be done because they grew out of ad hoc compliance programs left over from time immemorial. I am pretty darn good with systems thinking and I am super fast with Vision, so i feel confident that I could be a benefit to any organization looking for efficiencies. I took the FEMA stuff just trying to augment my tool box.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
Honestly, that’s how 90 percent of “overnight successes” happen anyway — the person toils in obscurity for years (or decades) until suddenly the stars align just the right way and suddenly you’re an overnight success without having had to do any work at all!
/mordant laugh
Arm The Homeless
Vision not Vision. I blame bill Gates for the lack of an edit button here.
Arm The Homeless
Visio damn it!
Irving
Esurance is Allstate. Always be careful with insurance jobs. Sales people needed in Medina, OH.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: At this point, I have storyboards all done for 3 projects and I’ve seen nothing like my ideas. If I can just keep doing things til I finish, I guess that can be my mantra. From what I can see of applying for work, over 40 wimmens with 2 decades of work experience need not apply. Especially if they show and do not meet our visual expectation fit. I prefer the honest greed of entertainment. “You can make us money? Welcome, whatever the fuck you are. Until you can’t, then GTFO.”
Seanly
@Big R:
I would assume the issue is that the first dot should be replaced with an @
If he meant that as a test, you just failed. :)
Pooh
@robotswillstealyourjobs: hiring or seeking?
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
Also, if you know some of the various animation programs, may as well try the Giant Evil Corporation. It can’t hurt, and they’re expanding on video games really fast, which may be a way in.
The Dangerman
@Luthe:
I have no affiliation with the company, but your quals sound like something ESRI would be interested in. They always seem to be hiring. Sunshine HAS to be your thing, home offices are in Redlands, CA (which is probably really hot today in CA’s early Summer). Traffic will kinda suck, not as bad as LA, but there are still (a few) orange groves there and nothing better than right off the tree.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
Come to the Giant Evil Corporation. We really do have cookies! (Well, bagels, anyway.) And they do a decent job of trying to be diverse, so your resume may not be quite as much of a handicap as it is in advertising.
lojasmo
For any rabble-rousers, organizers, or union thugs here.
Union jobs
ranchandsyrup
@The Dangerman: Cheap housing out there in San Berdoo county as well.
lojasmo
@Yutsano:
Good.
Capri
If you are a licensed veterinary technician, the Indiana Racing Commission really wants to hear from you. Purdue’s vet school is hiring too.
Schlemizel
I really need someone with security experience – preferably with some sys admin background or a bit of hacking.
The job is vulnerability assessment and pen testing. Its not wildly deep but we need someone technical who understands not every job is going to be James Bond level excitement. We need a pen tester but you may not be doing a lot of pen testing every day.
You would actually be employed by a very large contract outfit but that means paid vacation & benefits. It is not temp, the outfit has been supplying people to us for 10 years or more to fill this role.
Its in the Southern Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul MN and pay should be at the highest end of 5 figures.
If you want to get more info or discuss it in more detail you can email me. I have this account with the good folks of yahoo! and the account id is ‘anetminder’ so your first test will be to see if you can email me B-{D
Melissa
I’m a dual US/Canadian citizen living in Saskatoon. I don’t intend to move, but I have a lot of experience with distance work.
My department was eliminated and I took early retirement two years ago. I’m more fortunate than many, but had expected to work another 5-6 years.
I’ve done a lot of teaching online, especially writing skills (for certificate & professional programs) and adult education/instructional design. Degree in history, MA in higher & adult ed.
Let me know if you hear of anything!
scav
Another GIS (Arc plus theory) person here, although most of my business experience has been as a data jockey (Oracle/Access/Excel). Also familiarity with typesetting, basic html and similar codes, scripting, photoshop. . . With practically a career as a grad student (mostly analytical geography), I’ve been involved in everything from basic research db management, data transformation and analysis, QA to final products. Might be easiest to say I’m a generalist data jockey, but I’ve never figured out how to put that in business-speak.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Poopyman: At one of my previous jobs, the company had a similar severance, which a few of my friends were forced to take. Then the company file for bankruptcy about half way through some of their benefits, and they had nothing.
The Dangerman
@ranchandsyrup:
The city of Berdoo is bankrupt, is cutting back on services, and would be known as the Crack Capital if it wasn’t so well known for Meth (also, it has an International Airport with no scheduled flights arriving or departing). It’s a shithole (and the city of my birth, but I avoid it for obvious reasons). There’s a reason housing is cheap in the area.
ranchandsyrup
@The Dangerman: I agree. The housing market collapsed out there which is the primary driver.
sacrablue
@Schlemizel: I will pass this on to spouse person. He may know of some peeps from ISSA group looking for work. Not sure if anyone will want to move to MN, though.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: It’s funny, since I’m fairly evil. And I make cookies.
Big R
@Seanly: I made that correction already. It bounced anyway.
There’s no reason to test ME! I’m not the candidate!
Shinobi
My company in Chicago is currently hiring a junior GIS analyst to help out or project management team, as well as a new sales person.
Feel free to drop me an e-mail at [email protected] if you are interested.
On the flip side my long term unemployed partner with experience in customer service, IT and cooking really could use any kind of low level IT support job. Here in Chicago, or Remote.
PurpleGirl
OT, but why not here… Happy Pi Day.
Redshift
I’m still looking for a senior software engineering job in the DC area after my company shut down back in November. Long experience in Java and a variety of Java technologies, also C#, C, C++. I’ve done some fairly complex SQL work as well, though I wouldn’t claim to be an expert in it. More application and server code than “web developer,” though I know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript too. I’d prefer a commercial software company to a government contractor, but I can’t afford to be picky.
For those of you who haven’t been job-hunting in a while, the most annoying new development since the last time I was looking is that companies don’t bother to say you didn’t get a job, they just stop communicating with you. I’m not talking about a response to a resume or initial application (I don’t expect that), but after several rounds of phone interviews, they just stop responding to calls and emails. I suppose it’s easier on the hiring person not to have to deal with disappointed job-seekers, but I find it really obnoxious. After I’ve put in many hours preparing, interviewing, and filling out applications, you owe me an answer.
Kirk
@Redshift: Oh, I disagree. That’s been around for a few years.
No, I think it’s the almost total conversion to automation. There are the automated systems that, if you find more than one job for which you’re qualified, do not care – you must fill in everything, again. I’m delighted by the automated systems that aren’t updated, where once you apply you get this nice little letter telling you the position is already closed. There are a couple of companies out there who are sending “hey, here’s a job” emails, but they’ve completely scrambled the links. You can unpack them but need to be aware of ascii/*nix coding to know what’s happened. Nice test if you’re applying for IT, but if your positions are other fields it means you don’t get the applicants. (Jacobs Engineering are you listening? I’ve only sent half a dozen ‘fix please’ emails to HR and IT.)
Know what’s especially fun about the automation? I’m about convinced that the majority of actual hires of anything but entry level are done first by someone talking to someone, then getting into the system.
Redshift
@Kirk: Yeah, that’s also the worst. On advice from a recruiter I worked with, I have an alternate resume for submitting to automated systems, full of every piece of technobabble I’ve ever dealt with, to attempt to get past the systems where a human doesn’t see it unless it passes keyword matching.
scav
@Kirk: That’s exactly what’s killing me. My quote-unquote career path is toxic to automated systems. Hard enough to convince people that the frankly odd combination of topics and tasks might make for a flexible and qualified employee but with mechanical sorting? Flames, wheels falling off and the whole springs spoinging thing. I’ve psyched myself into a standstill trying to reverse engineer what might get through those barriers
grumpy realist
@ruemara: It’s not immediate but I may be looking for an animator for a project down the line if I can work out the financials and convince myself the bloody thing will make $$$$. (I’ve got at least one VC critter interested in the project.) Is animation your bag?
Spiny Norman
@Big R:
no, you probably did it right;
my directions were wrong.
it’s my _first_ name,
followed by the three-digit integer that’s twice two hundred seventy-seven
followed by dot comcast dot net
I regret the error.
joel hanes
yes, first name, not last name,
first dot should be at sign
and joel is very very short on sleep.
again, apologies for the errors.
Rosie Outlook
@raven: My agency LOVES Lean Six. Seems like just another management fad to me. I swear “managers” are the most gullible people on God’s earth. No wonder the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
Yutsano
@PurpleGirl: I LIKE PIE!!
Eric U.
I like pie so much I might put myself in my own pie filter.
Kirk
@Rosie Outlook: Don’t blame the managers, blame the executives on top.
Part of the problem is that managers are a qualitative addition. The manager doesn’t make things better than someone else, he gets his people to make things better than another group. It’s hard – very hard – to evaluate qualitative effects outside the margins. (I can clearly identify the best and worst of 100. Try to differentiate #45 from #55 is something else again.)
Tools like Lean Six are intended as much to determine who is #45 as they are to actually produce improvement. Incidentally – and as justification – they’re an attempt to find the elusive something that will make all the #45s as good as #10 if not #1.
Rosie Outlook
@Kirk: In my agency, what you call executives are called managers (this agency is not big on clear wording or clear thinking).
Poopyman
@Belafon (formerly anonevent): It’s Raytheon, so not gonna happen.
mclaren
“Wonderful news!” Are you really that ignorant?
The decline in the unemployment rate is due entirely to people who have stopped looking for work. The proof? It’s as clear as day: while the technical rate of unemployment has dropped, the proportion of the American population with a job hasn’t increased by one whit.
“In terms of the economy, it’s not good enough to simply increase employment and decrease unemployment, if the proportion of people with jobs isn’t actually going up.”
Source: “The stagnation behind the excellent jobs report,” Felix Salmon, 8 March 2013.
Like all sociopaths, soonergrunt is ignorant as well as incompetent. Fortunately, he has a solution: he can tell me to “die in a fire,” the way he’s advised other Democrats to suffer, scream and die if they point out facts he doesn’t like.
Soonergrunt
@mclaren: If you don’t like being told to die in a fire, you whiny shit, you might think about how you treat people.
You’ve been a grade A bitch to me from the get go. Now, maybe you’ve got daddy issues, maybe a Soldier splashed you with his car at the bus stop, or maybe you think you’re making your bones, but most likely you’re just a sorry piece of shit who thinks that stringing long words together into semi-coherent sentences is an adequate substitute for actually making a logical topical argument and stringing those semi-coherent sentences into long filibuster posts that attempt to derail the conversation without actually saying anything is an adequate substitute for possessing and expressing a coherent philosophical position. After all, it’s worked for you in the past. You’ve managed to either bully or bullshit everybody else around you, so why not?
Your problem here is that you’re really no different from any of the other people in the world who mistake loquaciousness for wisdom.
Let us look at the comment that earned you your well deserved, all be it rhetorical third degree burns when you were trying to rehab yourself with a different handle:
Since everybody knows that you would have spit in their faces if you’d met them alive, and nobody believed then, nor believes now that you gave a shit about any of them, except to service your own fucked up needs, I replied with this:
I stand by what I said. If you were on fire, and I had just drank a large coffee and chased it down with a super big gulp, I’d savor the pain in my bladder rather than piss on you to put you out.
Now, you and I both know that your stock in trade is to call everyone who disagrees with you a sociopath. Which not only shows that you have no fucking clue what a sociopath is, but that you are also rather obviously lacking in self-awareness.
You might have heard of the golden rule–do unto others as you would have them do unto you, or its modern sequent–karma is a bitch.
Since you have never been remotely polite to me in any context, and have in fact gone out of your way to behave as a vicious if somewhat stupid blowhard, please understand that whenever you whine about the big meanie front pager, you only show yourself to be even more pathetic than you are silly.
BruceFromOhio
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is expanding one of it’s service areas and is seeking IT folks. There are also other positions open that I won’t describe here, but please follow the link and take a look around. As of this morning there are 29 open positions, and it is a wide range of talent needed, from entry-level to highly advanced economic and technical positions.
Good luck to all.
BruceFromOhio
@Soonergrunt: I’m sorry you got to put up with that stuff. Please accept my condolences for the loss of your comrades.
And please know, too, that for every person who would abuse their collective memory, there are many others who choose to simply honor and respect their service and their lives for what they are, the men and women of the US armed forces.
Agreed on the big gulp/coffee combo. That shit is just wrong.
Soonergrunt
@BruceFromOhio: And it’s not the stupid shit that she says all the time. She’s of no consequence. She’s just another stalker. When she fades away the Internet gods will send me another one just like she her. The one she replaced had more panache.
It’s the blatant bullshit that day in which she tried to claim that her misuse of my friends’ loss was anything other than the self-evidently self-serving self-elevating bullshit that it plainly was that led to my telling her to die in a fire.