Just immigrated to Maryland – Ellicott City.. need help in finding a job (headhunters)

[tzibdeh]

Hi all, I just immigrated to the US from the Middle East. I decided to live in Maryland as I have relatives here. I am trying to find a job; most of my experience is in management “IT training and such” with solid experience in Operations, IT, and sales.

I have been here for a month now and still did not get a single interview although I posted my resume on all known employment web sites. Is there any advice on how to find a good job here where I can build further on my experience? Are there local recruitment agencies that can help?

Thanks

[ReefAreCoolToo]

first off, what's your immigration status? green card/citizen? are you on visitor visa that required sponsored?
look under workbaltimore.com

[tzibdeh]

Green card, I am authorized to work.
thanks

[fishfister]

Are you posting resumes as if you might cast for fish and hope for something/anything to bite at it?
I, for one, can say you might want to be a bit more proactive in your job hunting than that, especially here in the DC metropolitan area.
I bought a new suit and attacked it 8 hours a day at the offices of sub-contractors that employ people that had the job I wanted. Speaking to an HR individual in person will go farther than the thousands of resumes they receive in mail or email.
I saw a couple of classmates years later and asked how they were doing. In the course of conversation I told them I was working for NASA. A response I got from one guy was '"that because you white" - totally uncalled for.

I was as green as any grad, knew no one there and had no leads to jobs. I didn't know what I wanted to do other than designing electronics and eventually didn't do that. I went door to door seeking out employment until I succeeded. It took two weeks and I never mailed a resume. Email wasn't a luxury then.

After some years in my career I had the luxury of moving about as contracts changed - yeah, this is federal government territory - and got to sort through resumes received in the mail and tossed 90% of what came in. Whatever the headhunters - the email resume contractors - did was out of my hands but I still had to look at those resumes at times. Most of them were trash as well. Most resumes are multi-paged and frilly. I kept my eye out for short ones that told the facts. If your resume is more than a page long it makes no sense. Is it telling me what you can do NOW?!

The IT field is one of the most bloated I can think of in this town and most of my friends are connected to it in one form or another. I don't really know what they do, I don't ask and I don't care. I am retired and let them have fun.

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