I had a cold hit from Monster.ca the other day. That is, someone saw my resume on the site and decided to contact me. The guy is a head hunter looking to fill a Perl developer position. Well, I was excited, because I’d done a lot of Perl work in the past. Thing is, I’m not really on top of Perl modules and some of the more crazy things like installing modules from CPAN (hummmmm), but I’m pretty good with picking apart algorithms and working with variables and such. Regular expressions are my friend! I’m not a beginner, but I’m not fully advanced. Truth be told, I’d pin my self as beginner-intermediate, if only because I’m not feeling so confident right now.
Anyway, back to this guy. I emailed him back telling him about my co-op terms. He called me up shortly after and seemed suddenly hesitant because of my fresh grad status. His questions seemed all the more pointed as a result. As such, I was flustered and answer rather stupidly in my opinion.
So, all right, I’m not confident at all about getting this job. Can you blame me? Ugh. This sucks, yo. I feel like I’m stuck between two places. I don’t want an internship position. I mean, I have 3 years of job experience as it is. I’ve paid my dues. However, no one wants to stick a new grad in a proper position. It’s just not prudent from the company’s point of view, know what I mean? It seems that the only companies that understand are the ones that have worked closely with UW in the past. I guess it’s just hard finding such a company in Toronto. Does this mean I’ll have to expand my job search to include opportunities farther away?
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