Posted on 10/04/2009 5:04:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In a brutal job market, here's a task that might sound easy: Fill jobs in nursing, engineering and energy research that pay $55,000 to $60,000, plus benefits.
Yet even with 15 million people hunting for work, even with the unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, some employers can't find enough qualified people for good-paying career jobs.
Ask Steve Jones, a hospital recruiter in Indianapolis who's struggling to find qualified nurses, pharmacists and MRI technicians. Or Ed Baker, who's looking to hire at a U.S. Energy Department research lab in Richland, Wash., for $60,000 each.
Economists say the main problem is a mismatch between available work and people qualified to do it. Millions of jobs with attractive pay and benefits that once drew legions of workers to the auto industry, construction, Wall Street and other sectors are gone, probably for good. And those who lost those jobs generally lack the right experience for new positions popping up in health care, energy and engineering.
Many of these specialized jobs were hard to fill even before the recession. But during downturns, recruiters tend to become even choosier, less willing to take financial risks on untested workers.
The mismatch between job opening and job seeker is likely to persist even as the economy strengthens and begins to add jobs. It also will make it harder for the unemployment rate, now at 9.8 percent, to drop down to a healthier level.
It's become especially hard to find accountants, health care workers, software sales representatives, actuaries, data analysts, physical therapists and electrical engineers, labor analysts say. And employers that demand highly specialized training -- like biotech firms that need plant scientists or energy companies that need geotechnical engineers to build offshore platforms -- struggle even more to fill jobs.
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I have a line or two on people who buy content but getting talent worth looking at here in my part of the world is not easy. Most just ditz out. I am working on it though. Apart from computers, photo/video is the one other type of work I love.
Ah HR people, no real skills except the power (they think) to hire and fire.
I used to live in DC.
I sent out 600 resumes Thursday, and nothing.
Data Analyst, Data Mining/Business Intelligence, Search Engine Expert and Optimizer
Experience
Onionsalad parked at www.tents-to-rvs.info temporally
Las Vegas, NV
Owner, Web Spider/Crawler 1/06- present, ongoing
MS SQL Server, AJAX Interface, the Google API, C#
l The world’s largest, fully searchable, recipe website.
l I wrote an Internet spider that has collected 500,000 food recipes, completely indexed for search. It is the worlds largest.
l It was once thought to be computationally impossible to do because of the difficulty of consistently finding the title of any random recipe on the web.
l A Spanish, French Italian and German version will be available soon.
l From sending keywords to Google to the AJAX HTML writes directly to the browser, this demonstration project uses multiple technologies and disciplines.
Ratings.net
Sacramento, CA
Lead consultant, Web Spider/Crawler 1/08- present
Foxpro 9, HTML, the Google API, Internet Explorer Object
l A ratings search engine.
l Collected 500,000 individual ratings for this website. Then the system was reversed engineered (technically documented) so the system could be re-written in C# or Visual Basic in the .NET platform.
Washington, DC Superior Court
Washington, DC
Lead consultant, Financial accounting system 10/01 – 12/08
MS SQL Server, Various point of sale hardware, FoxPro 7 for Windows
l The Court Finance and Remittance System (CFARS) version 1.0
l Interface with numerous point of sale electronic equipment. Rewrote and updated the Superior Court Finance and Remittance System. It was then reversed engineered in an effort to port it over to a new platform. This system collected all fees and fines for the court. The system was cross departmental, including probate, criminal, family, traffic, bankruptcy, probation, child support, restitution and small claims. It was the only single system that ran across almost all departments of the court. The system was used by all judges, both in their chambers and all courtrooms.
l This was a multiuser application, with hundreds of users at a time. The system also wrote data to multiple external hardware devices including exotic receipt printers and cash drawers, making the front end essentially a complete point of sale system.
CarlynDavisCasting.com
Falls Church, Virginia
Lead Consultant, Web master with a back end database 9/99 – ongoing
Foxpro, Foxweb, Various multimedia tools.
l Authored a major multimedia based web site.
l I Created a web site for a major talent casting company. The site contains thousands of head shots, audio and video samples. The back end was implemented with a scanner, audio and video capturing utilities. These were implemented using LEAD Technologies, the world-leading supplier of imaging development SDKs.
l Foxweb runs this Web site.
Government of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
Principle consultant, Systems integration 11/99 – 9/01
SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, FoxPro, HTML
l Street inventory System
l Ported an extensive Clipper based application into SQL Server and converted much of the system. The system tracked all of the trees, benches, plant boxes, sewer openings, sidewalks, bus stops and parking meters. These things need to be tracked for maintenance and replacement purposes.
l The system was also technically documented in a very detailed way so the application could be utilized by other cities and municipalities.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Washington, DC
Lead consultant, Transaction tracking system 8/99 - 10/99
SQL Server, MS Access, Visual Basic
l Ported a massive Visual Basic database back end into Microsoft SQL Server.
l This was done because of new security requirements of the federal government.
3M Corporation
Washington, DC
Consultant, Heath data systems 6/96 -6/98
SQL Server, MS Access, FoxPro
l Analysis of worldwide government health care data
l Analysis of health care data for countries of Yugoslavia, Portugal and Hungary and others.
l Analysis was done in order for these governments to better project health care budgets.
l The health care budgets where projected for a period of up to 20 years. The main problem was that these countries did not have the capacities to collect very detailed health information on their patience’s. Where as the medical data collected in the US did. So the foreign data was juxtaposed against the American data collected in Maryland and Florida.
The State Court System of Montana
Helena, Montana
Lead consultant, Systems integration 7/95 - 6/96
FoxPro 2.6 DOS/Windows, FoxPro 3
l CFARS version 1.0
l Installation of the Court Finance and Remittance System across the state of Montana. This system was originally written for the Washington, DC Superior Court. It was then adopted by the state of Montana, with the DC courts blessing.
Washington, DC Superior Court
Washington, DC
Consultant, Programmer 9/94 – 7/95
FoxPro 2.6 DOS/Windows, FoxPro 3
l CFARS version 1.0
l Designed and implemented the Superior Court Finance and Remittance System. This system handles all aspects of the courts funds management activities. I worked for the court multiple times over a period of 10 years.
l See listing above.
NASDAQ
Bethesda, Maryland
Consultant, Programmer 6/94 – 9/94
MS Access, Foxpro
l Incentive compensation System
l Designed a system to implement nation wide compensation policies.
Martin Marietta Inc.
Rockville, Maryland
Consultant, Database administrator 3/94 – 6/94
FoxPro 3
l GSA Mailing list system
l Designed a system to handle GSA automated correspondence. Designed procedures to maintain the GSA’s very large databases.
Washington, DC Superior Court
Washington, DC
Consultant, Programmer 11/91 - 3/94
FoxPro 3
l Court Finance and Remittance System (CFARS)
l See above
The World Bank
Washington, DC
Consultant, Systems integration 10/90 - 11/91
FoxPro 2.0, FoxPro 2.6
l International Finance Division
l Designed and developed an international finance data collection and analysis system for member clients world wide. This was before the Internet. So the systems were installed on laptops which were flown all over the world to collect member countries financial data.
Office of Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon
Arlington, Virginia
Consultant, Systems integration 10/90 – 11/91
Clipper 7 FoxPro 2.6, Sun Spark Stations
l RTS (FoxPro 2.0) Report Tracking System. The report tracking system was developed because of all the various reports requested by members of congress and the current administration (The White House).
l STS (FoxPro 2.0) Security Tracking System for the Security Division. The security tracking system tracks all security clearance requests, decisions and expirations. It was also used to create certificates and badges.
l MTS (FoxPro 2.0) Mail Room Tracking System for the Mail Distribution Division. The mail room tracking system is used to track not only Pentagon based mail but also all mail of the armed forces worldwide.
l I still can’t believe they had me write a system to track all of the security clearances, even though I didn't, at the time, possess a security clearance.
Jeff Roehl
Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC
jroehl2@yahoo.com • Phone on email request
25 Years Technical Experience
l I achieved a perfect score on my SAT’s.
l Bachelor’s degree, University of Toledo, Ohio.
l I have been published recently in the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Business Journal.
l Willing to travel.
l Willing to re-locate anywhere.
Current technologies:
Visio, ASP.NET, C#, AJAX interfaces, .NET, WCF, Silver-Light, XML, HTML, COM Objects, Multimedia creation and tools, Microsoft Visual Studio, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Microsoft Office, Reverse engineering and technical analysis of legacy FoxPro systems, Cryptology and security expert, Object Oriented Programming OOP, Agile development, Extreme Programming, SCRUM, object-oriented analysis and design, data warehousing, ETL and data transfer processes, star-schema design, data cleansing, data transformations, data mining algorithms, decision trees, rule induction, logistic and linear regression, nearest neighbor, collaborative filtering, association rules, clustering, neural networks, support vector machines, boosting, data visualization, reporting, OLAP, click stream mining, scalable, fault-tolerant, n-tier enterprise software, e-commerce infrastructure, OLTP, customer relationship management, CRM, direct mail and email campaign management, real-time dialogue marketing, internationalization and localization, FoxPro, Visio SDK/API, Java, JSP, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, OpenGL, Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP), SQL, JDBC, ODBC, OCI, Windows, Mac OS X and AIX.
Your middle name’s not Anson is it?
Nope.
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