Denver job market

dark3d

Hello everyone,

I am getting prepared to move to Denver next summer and I was wondering about the most efficient method to find employment. I have no real contacts in the industry there and I have always landed jobs by referrals. Should I contact a recruiter or contact employers directly? I've never needed to make my resume stand out among a pile of applicants, so this is new territory for me.

A little about me- I've worked in Net admin for health care, banking, manufacturing and telecom since the mid 90s. I just finished up a full semester of IT classes at the local university and am transferring into WGU. MCSE in 1999, but I haven't really maintained my certs. Past 5 years have been IT consultant to area businesses (Jack of All Trades). I'm thinking I will have to find a net admin job so that I can get moved to the area and then set a goal of specialization in security after I am settled.

Any great recruiters in the area?

thanks!
Corey

Tremie24

The good news is, is there's plenty of recruiters in the Denver area, the bad news is none of them are really great. If I had to pick one though it would probably be teksystems. Personally I'd just start sending out your resume.

MSP-IT

I'm in the same situation currently. I've been working with recruiters directly (Teksystems and Robert Half) through LinkedIn. The job market seems to be pretty good in Denver, though I'd wait to Q1 of 2015 to see if it picks up at all, which it should.

dark3d

Ok. I interacted with a RH recruiter and she didn't seem to understand the fact that I am job hunting in an area in which I don't currently live. "Locals only." She said. I followed up with her, but didn't get a reply.

I've worked with Tek contractors locally and they seemed to be decent, so I'll give them a run.

Thanks for the info.

also, did the forum inbox feature get turned off? I want to connect with several of you, but there is no way to do so.

markulous

I've worked with Robert Half, Pomeroy, and Insight Global. Only bad experience I had was with Pomeroy and the guy straight up lied to me about my wages.

MeanDrunkR2D2

markulous wrote: »

I've worked with Robert Half, Pomeroy, and Insight Global. Only bad experience I had was with Pomeroy and the guy straight up lied to me about my wages.

My current contract is with Pomeroy, and they lied to me as well about the job I took 6 months ago. No wonder I'm leaving them at the end of this week to go to much greener and honest pastures. They really soured my outlook on recruiters as well.

N2IT

It comes down to the recruiter, although I will say RHT waste a lot of time with their weird onboarding process. Totally inefficient.

dark3d

Crazy timing. I just had a Teksystems recruiter call me. Unsolicited.
When things like this happen I begin to pay close attention.