<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Cliff Pratt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:enkidu@cliffp.com">enkidu@cliffp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 16/10/10 10:13, Rob Giltrap wrote:<br>
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So my question is... where do the hip young linux peeps hang out<br>
these days if you wanted to talk to them about a career in the Linux<br>
world?<br>
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Networking is the way to go and always has been. Many, but not all, agencies don't have a clue.<br></blockquote><div><br>Otherwise you can always ask the local secondary school's IT departments if they have any soon-to-be-grads who are any good. I deal with a few schools who have on-to-it guys who sometimes don't want to go down the Uni path.<br>
<br>Otherwise you could always post job add's up at Vic / Massey, and see what comes up.<br><br>15+ years in the IT industry and making a very good crust (but could always be better ;) for me and my family I have yet to find a permanent job through a recruiter. They just don't get what I do. To me if I could be bothered with Recruiting I know there would be a market for it, since all the IT recruiters I have dealt with have been completely hopeless.<br>
<br>I think a list of good agencies (or more to the point, good recruiters, as it really comes down to the individual) is worth having.<br><br>Otherwise the other NZ geek esq sites such as geekzone, overclockers et al may be a good place to go.<br>
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