Dang, I must really suck then. I was laid off 5 months ago and still looking. I’m in IT. Oh wait, I’m over 40 (not a millennial) nor an H1-B. Middle aged white men need not apply.
Send me your resume or brief description and your location and I’ll look around. I was a career counselor for decades.
Working corp-to-corp can eliminate several layers of racial and sex discrimination against you. If you’re over 40 and not new to IT, chances are you have skills that can be marketed direct to the companies that want access to them.
Look at companies that are not quite large enough to have acquired the multi-layered PC gestapo that is the modern HR Department, but large enough to have IT infrastructure. Especially in cities that are a little off the beaten path. They’ll hire you, if you have what they need as far as skills base. It’s very challenging to find qualified individuals for such companies, in such places.
I know under 40 Hispanic women in the same situation.
One of the problems is the irationality of the job market. Far too much weight is now on the algorithms and models of the resume database firms. Those models are as unscientific as the models that predict elections and climate change.
Far too much control is in the hands of HR and those who do not understand IT, but can parrot what they learned in gender studies in college.
Far too much control is in the hands of Indian recruiters who openly are biased in favor of people like them.
There must be a market somewhere, even a niche market, for the contrarian. Why is nobody filling that market?
My story is nearly identical!
Been in IT for 20 years, as a contractor for the last 5.
My last contract ended last September and I’ve had to take essentially a entry-level job in a blue-collar field to stay afloat.
My story is nearly identical!
Been in IT for 20 years, as a contractor for the last 5.
My last contract ended last September and I’ve had to take essentially a entry-level job in a blue-collar field to stay afloat.
I still get job offers as a programmer and I am approaching 60.
Only 5 months? You’re doing better than a lot of others, who have been out for years.
I can’t tell you how many resumes I’ve sent out where there’s no response.
It’s not you.