A couple leads

A couple internal job leads surfaced today. One area is building a new Web prototype, and contacted me because my current applications are affected. They have no employee developers - all are India contractors, mostly offshore (the brave new tech world). The manager is pulling her hair out just trying to get all the security access to enable web development from overseas. "If I just had someone like you on the team it could have been done in three weeks. Instead, we've barely started."

I gave her some other options for her project as we were discussing it. She must have liked what she heard, because she said "I would be a terrific member of the team". However, although this would be ideal (I'd still be involved with web development) there is one small difficulty: she does not yet have any real openings. They are in the process of trying to get funding approval for this new project (hopefully by mid-June). The other negative: they are in the same organization I'm in now, so Mr. Outsource, who laid me off, is the final approver.

I am finding my revised resume, courtesy of EZ Resume, is at least drawing leads. Thanks to the person whose reply gave me the lead. I've found great links to resume writing tips, sample resumes, resume templates, etc on EZ Resume - it did help.

Another new area, the "Testing Center of Excellence", may end up with a couple openings. (Hint: the more exotic the name, the more pedestrian the work.) The manager has a couple openings on the org chart, but needs to get them approved and requisitions opened. She did say she would contact me when it gets to that point. These jobs would be all-testing all-the-time; not the most exciting thing in the world. But not eating seems even less exciting...

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