Am I the only one in Austin terrified at the thought of local layoffs this month?

[Tim_Barton]

Its not a bad time to be here. Two of my cousins relocated here in the past 3-weeks and both already found decent jobs.
One came from Miami and the other from St. Louis and are really happy that they made the move.

[nxm]

Hello,
We (wife, a 4 year daughter and a 5 month son) are planning a move to Texas, most likely to Austin or Dallas/Fort Worth. I used to live in Midwest and loved it. Right now, we are living in Miami, FL and find it is not an appropriate place to raise children and the IT job market is very bad here. I have a steady job in software engineering with almost 10 years of experience but with no potential professional growth in my current job.

I am not sure, and this is where I need some advise on how to, go about searching for a good job in Austin area. I have been hearing all good things about this area and its job market. In fact Fort Worth/Dallas has lots of software development jobs, but I am more inclined towards Austin.

I am really tired of Southeast and cannot wait to get ouf of here. Sometimes I just want to quit my job and move to Austin and then find a job but then I think that I shouldn't be unthankful in this type of job market.

I would love to hear from you on what should my approach be in finding a job, how to target the companies and find out the contacts within the compaines.

How long can a job search take me to find a decent job?

Thanks much.

[pbnj07]

"And with oil at $40 a barrel" (MAR09).

HAHAHAHA!

[Jink]

Originally Posted by nxm

Hello,
We (wife, a 4 year daughter and a 5 month son) are planning a move to Texas, most likely to Austin or Dallas/Fort Worth. I used to live in Midwest and loved it. Right now, we are living in Miami, FL and find it is not an appropriate place to raise children and the IT job market is very bad here. I have a steady job in software engineering with almost 10 years of experience but with no potential professional growth in my current job.

I am not sure, and this is where I need some advise on how to, go about searching for a good job in Austin area. I have been hearing all good things about this area and its job market. In fact Fort Worth/Dallas has lots of software development jobs, but I am more inclined towards Austin.

I am really tired of Southeast and cannot wait to get ouf of here. Sometimes I just want to quit my job and move to Austin and then find a job but then I think that I shouldn't be unthankful in this type of job market.

I would love to hear from you on what should my approach be in finding a job, how to target the companies and find out the contacts within the compaines.

How long can a job search take me to find a decent job?

Thanks much.

I second all of this, except I'm a young, inexperienced electrical engineer working for the gov't, but looking for a job in the private sector working with electronics. I've seen a few jobs big companies like IBM and Intel are advertising for entry-level, newly graduated engineers, but I don't know if that applies to me since I've been out of school for 3 years and am working at the moment.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by nxm

Hello,
We (wife, a 4 year daughter and a 5 month son) are planning a move to Texas, most likely to Austin or Dallas/Fort Worth. I used to live in Midwest and loved it. Right now, we are living in Miami, FL and find it is not an appropriate place to raise children and the IT job market is very bad here. I have a steady job in software engineering with almost 10 years of experience but with no potential professional growth in my current job.

I am not sure, and this is where I need some advise on how to, go about searching for a good job in Austin area. I have been hearing all good things about this area and its job market. In fact Fort Worth/Dallas has lots of software development jobs, but I am more inclined towards Austin.

I am really tired of Southeast and cannot wait to get ouf of here. Sometimes I just want to quit my job and move to Austin and then find a job but then I think that I shouldn't be unthankful in this type of job market.

I would love to hear from you on what should my approach be in finding a job, how to target the companies and find out the contacts within the compaines.

How long can a job search take me to find a decent job?

Thanks much.

You would get a better response if you start your own thread rather then tag onto one as old as this. In general I don't think it is a good gamble in this economy for someone with a decent job to give it up and move all the way here in hopes of finding something better. Very risky.

[nxm]

Thanks CptnRn, I am definitely not going to take any risks but at the same time I need to start looking around just not sure how to target the companies.

I think its a good idea to start a new thread on it.

Thanks once again.