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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Technology |
Computer programmers - where do you look for jobs? |
My company needs to hire a computer programmer - contract only... hopefully a 1 time re-write of some custom windows based software and occasional upgrades/maintenance. Anyway - WHERE do you guys look for jobs like this? Monster or some other website? I dont want to put an ad on the wrong place and get 5000 replies from people who are useless. Hi Valerie, You might call up a company you are familiar with (but not a competitor unless you are on friendly terms) and ask them who they use or recommend. Call their IT department and talk to the manager. Also he might have a few people that moonlight although it might be a touchy subject. A second place to look is the yellow pages. Look under computers - software. I personally work for the yellow pages here in Oklahoma and we have a very healthy computer section. If you are in a smaller town or there isn't a built up section in the yp you might call some of the computer dealers and ask them who they recommend. Even going to a retail computer store and asking their repair dept or resident computer geek (they all have one) might be able to steer you to the right direction. Another possibility and a cheaper way to go about it is to call your local college and find out who teaches the computer software courses. Then call the professor and ask him if there are any of his students that he would recommend who would be willing to do some work for you . (make sure he recommends them first - you don't want just anyone working on your system ) The point is you can get them cheaper than the professionals and they can use you on their resume. I would recommend that you talk to at least 3 different software people however and definately get references. When you get the references make sure and ask them how long did it take the person to complete the job. Also do they charge by the job or by the hour. You might cut a deal with them for the entire job. If it goes under a certain amount of hours they come out ahead. If it goes over then they eat it. Also you might want to check with your attorney to see if there is anything they need to sign - such as a non disclosure form. You definately want to talk with the attorney and ask him how you insure performance issues etc. You don't want someone digging into your system and quit half way through it. I've heard horror stories. It might help to find out what type of software you are running and what type of language it uses. Here in Oklahoma there are alot of oil and gas companies and their software is very specialized. In your industry it might be the same. It could be that its so specialized that only a few people are trained on it. Also you might check out how much a new software program might cost if you can pick it up from a store. It might be time to upgrade now rather than pay the expenses of a programmer only to have to upgrade in a year or two. If I can help you in any other way let me know. You can reach me at jhunt125@yahoo.com. Hope all this helps. Jim Programmers these days only work on up to date systems such as XP or Vista, even OSX or variants of Linux. Once software gets discontinued, people no longer work on them. I guarentee you that you will get lots of help from many sources if you upgrade your software beforehand. |
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