Information Technology positions In Nashville (unemployed, school, contractor)

[Raziel]

Greetings,

My wife and I fell in love with Nashville, the culture and lush landscape compared to Texas. We may be thinking of a move in late Spring.

Is there anybody here working in Information Technology and how is the availability of jobs in this field?

Someone mentioned that Dell computers may be located there but, I would prefer to bypass the large corporations if I can help it. I'm looking for a position in Technical Support or Network Administration for some smaller organizations possibly supporting the music industry or similar.
Thank you for your time!

[septimus]

try the healthcare industry too.

[bnewman]

You shouldn't have any problem finding that kind of work...check out Robert Half Co...they are IT recruiters and have several openings...there are other IT recruiters here as well that can help.

[zachguest]

Originally Posted by septimus

try the healthcare industry too.

Use recruiters as a last resort in Nashvegas. Trust me. They are like marketers. They ***** themselves for money only. BUTTT If you just search worknashville.com careerbuilder.com monster or any of the others you can find work, use the recruiters as a last resort or your going to be working as a contractor for 3 to 6 months before getting health benefits and with the plethora of healthcare companies in nashville you shouldn't have any problems searching for work. Hit me up if you have any other questions or if interested in a Support Services position let me know and I'll throw the resume at my boss.

[mkat321]

Originally Posted by zachguest

Use recruiters as a last resort in Nashvegas. Trust me. They are like marketers. They ***** themselves for money only. BUTTT If you just search worknashville.com careerbuilder.com monster or any of the others you can find work, use the recruiters as a last resort or your going to be working as a contractor for 3 to 6 months before getting health benefits and with the plethora of healthcare companies in nashville you shouldn't have any problems searching for work. Hit me up if you have any other questions or if interested in a Support Services position let me know and I'll throw the resume at my boss.

not trying to hijack the thread but my husband said to say thank you for the information in your post. He is going back to school this fall to pursue his bachelors in computer science/information technology and was starting to think Robert Half et al were the only way to get entry level IT jobs in Tennessee.

[Jzer21]

Originally Posted by Raziel

Greetings,

My wife and I fell in love with Nashville, the culture and lush landscape compared to Texas. We may be thinking of a move in late Spring.

Is there anybody here working in Information Technology and how is the availability of jobs in this field?

I live in Nashville and work in IT for the state. The IT market here is average. With the economy the way it is, I'd say you'd have a lot of competition applying for a job here. We have recently had two open positions and received around 200 resume submissions for these 2 positions. I know that's just anecdotal, but it's what I've personally seen. It's appears that a lot of people are looking to change jobs for various reasons.

[Doogie]

Jzer21, of those 200, how many were new graduates and how many were actually qualified for the position? I've seen times when looking for someone with 5 years experience when I got 100 resumes from new grads and 10 from people who actually had 5 years of experience.

Also, where were the positions advertised? 200 would be a lot for responses to Craigslist but it would be insignificant on Monster or CareerBuilder.

You also imply that the respondents were mostly employed already ("looking to change jobs"). If so, this would mean there would be a new job opening when they left their other position. This would obviously be much better than if they were all unemployed looking for work.

[storey13]

Vanderbilt.edu have a few IT openings right now in LAN admin. I know that a couple of them though require a CCNA certification.