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  • June 12, 2014 at 2:23 pm

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    Alan.B (6/11/2014)

    I am going to make a wild guess and say that you are in Albuquerque, NM or somewhere nearby? I don't know much about that market but know that there is a desperate shortage of DBAs and good SQL developers right now pretty much everywhere in the US.

    I worked for Robert Half for a year as a BI Consultant in 2011-2012 and think that they were okay -- there were some good pros and a few cons - my attitude about them is neutral. I think Tek Systems is better if you have the opportunity to work with them. I have worked with Tek System's people here and there for the past 15 years and they seem to take good care of their people. I also worked with them as a candidate and think they are good to work with.

    There are endless opportunities all over the country and employers are getting desperate enough to allow for Remote Candidates. My current employer, for example, allows for remote workers. My Previous 3 employers did so as well now that I think about it.

    Two two best sites IMHO for tech job seekers are: Dice.com and indeed.com.

    You nailed it, Alan B, I am in the Albuquerque job market. I seldom see any positions open in my local market.

    I've now got to ask you, what company is it you work for that they're willing to consider remote employees?

    I'm on Dice.com. Haven't heard of indeed.com, so will check them out. Thanks!

    In that case, I strongly recommend that you do what I did and it REALLY paid off... Seek out 2 or 3 REALLY good recruiters and work closely with them. Most of the really good companies won't bother (IMHO) with Web Sites like Dice.com (etc) because every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane that even sat in the same room as a book on SQL apply. So, instead, they turn to good recruiters that actually do know how to do at least some preliminary filtering.

    Note that I didn't say "any" recruiter. It also takes a bit to find a good one but it does sharpen you up on the kinds of questions you might need during a job interview.

    --Jeff Moden

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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