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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>
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Regards,<br>
Neil Ramsay<br>
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On 16/10/2010 12:16, Jethro Carr wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 10:13 +1300, Rob Giltrap wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 wrap="">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 wrap="">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 wrap="">Social networks - twitter is particularly popular with younger geeks -
and conferences - things like kiwicon and linux.conf.au 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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