<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Neil Ramsay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil.ramsay@agentnoel.geek.nz">neil.ramsay@agentnoel.geek.nz</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;">
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Good evening WellyLUG,<br>
just to throw in some loose change...<br>
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As a graduate I have not found a good listing of Linux/UNIX jobs,
which makes me believe there are not many out there.<br>
It is also not clear what skills should be learnt - especially as
Jethro notes you need to be self-directed.<br>
In terms of experience, does the industry expect industry experience
or can running a small LAN (4-5 computers) count as experience?<br></div></blockquote><div><br>It all depends on what you ran on those 4-5 computers ;)<br><br>If you throw around things like you rebuilt them off a centralised image, played with XEN or other VM technologies, know your way around shell scripting, done stuff with gdb or strace for debugging. Compiled up source code from the net and made it work. Plus other scripting lang's such as php/python/perl etc are good things to know.<br>
<br>Then it all comes down to attitude, well presented, not an idiot then you should be fine.<br><br>If you're looking for hard work and long hours (50 hours per week standard) but good money (from what I hear) you could always try Weta. They are always looking for good people.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Neil Ramsay<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 16/10/2010 12:16, Jethro Carr wrote:
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<pre>On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 10:13 +1300, Rob Giltrap wrote:
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<pre>With hair starting to grey I'm not as hip and cool in the social
networking scene as I should be, but I'm fairly convinced that they old
school way of hiring people through recruitment agencies is no longer
the best way to get to tech savvy Linux people.
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<pre>Correct, recruitment agencies are next useless - many don't even have a
clue what my skillset is, I've been told several times to "go to uni"
despite my background and skills being in high demand.
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<pre>So my question is... where do the hip young linux peeps hang out these
days if you wanted to talk to them about a career in the Linux world?
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<pre>Social networks - twitter is particularly popular with younger geeks -
and conferences - things like kiwicon and <a href="http://linux.conf.au" target="_blank">linux.conf.au</a> are a great way
of finding people genuinely interested and excited about technology.
Most of the "hip young linux peeps" I know, I've meet through the
above. :-)
But there does seem to be massive shortages of skilled Linux engineers -
universities seem to be turning on .net & java developers without
stopping, but linux engineers seem mostly to be self-driven people and
are much rarer. :-/
regards,
jethro
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