Tight job market, my foot.

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

When I graduated from the HAN university with my bachelors degree in hand, I was informed that it was a tight job market at the moment. Many of my friends with the same educational background as me where having a really hard time landing a good job.

During my first internship I worked at ZXFactory, and had stayed working there on and off, while I finished the rest of my education. When I graduated I immediatelly informed if they had an opening for me, which they did. “Happy me,” I thought, “I won’t have to jump through hoops in order to get me a job!”

Turns out though that the job market for my line of work (software engineer) is actually pretty good. How can I tell? No, no, not by reading reports, studies, polls or any of that other nonsense.. I can tell by the fact that in less than one and a half years, I’ve been approached by no less than four companies, all offering me a position. Mind you that they initiated the first contact, not me.

Apparently, there are a lot more Software Engineering jobs out there than you’d suspect. Companies are actually prowling the Web, looking for suitable employees by checking out their homepages.

Me? I’m sticking with ZX Factory for a while. There’s some really neat projects coming up, and I’m having a lot of fun with the projects I’m currently working on.