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The Java job market is hot!
Posted by joconner on October 29, 2007 at 01:48 AM | Comments (9)
After almost 8 years at Sun, I'm moving on. I have enjoyed every minute of my employment here. But business plans, products, and teams change. My recent job as a developer advocate and writer for the Sun Developer Network is over, and I'll move on to something new.
From working on the core Java SE platform and its internationalization features to writing technical articles for Java developers, I've had rewarding work at Sun. What a great place to work! What a great product to work with! What fantastic teams too!
Some of my recent projects at Sun were these:
I'm a little bummed about leaving Sun, but I'm excited about all the opportunities available in our Java community. This is a great time to be a Java developer. Have you checked sites like Dice, Monster, or Yahoo Hot Jobs. The market is hot, hot, hot. If you're a Java programmer/developer/engineer, you have lots of options.
Hopefully the readers here and elsewhere have enjoyed my articles on java.sun.com. In fact, I enjoy writing for you -- Java developers -- so much that I plan on continuing. If you've enjoyed my work, you might look around here in the future. Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute to the content on java.net and elsewhere. And if your company needs a technology evangelist, developer advocate, technical writer, or Java developer, let me know. I'm in the market for something new and challenging!
Have you recently changed jobs? I'm curious how long it took you to find something new. Seems like Java developers are needed everywhere, so I expect you didn't have to search long. I'd enjoy hearing your success stories.
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Im sorry to see you go (boo hoo). Ive really enjoyed your articles. I wish all the best in your new direction. Thanks alot man.
Martyn
Posted by: bigchocdad on October 29, 2007 at 03:08 AM
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Oh, well, good luck, but I'm really longing to see you again here.
Posted by: fabriziogiudici on October 29, 2007 at 06:51 AM
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I changed, several times in the last few years, and I have the feeling that only 10% or less of the huge availability of Java jobs are really interesting. The other ones are maintenance and/or based on suffocating obsolete technologies. The most part of jobs lock you in old versions of JSP or servlets. If you are lucky to get something near SOA or EJB, probably will use xFire or EJB 2 :)I am not being pessimistic or so, but the Java market nowadays are really legacy oriented, and that's why we have this large amount of offers out there.You are leaving one of the few companies where you can dream with innovation or research :) despite I have no idea on how far is the dream from the reality anyway... :) ehehGood luck, I hope to hear great novelties from you in the next few months...
Posted by: felipegaucho on October 29, 2007 at 06:58 AM
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I agree that the Java market is hot. I’ve interviewed 4 times last week and was made 3 offers. I think the jobs are location dependent. In the Southeast, Atlanta is the town.
As for the comment on legacy oriented, almost everyone I spoke with was interested in the SOA and JRuby combination.
2 other nice job sites include indeed.com and computerjobs. Indeed is an aggregate for other job sites, computerjobs is popular site for Atlanta jobs. All my Atlanta leads have come from computerjobs,
Good luck in your new opportunity.
Posted by: malcolmdavis on October 29, 2007 at 07:18 AM
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It does seem quite a bit hotter lately. I wasn't even in the market and someone contacted me about an older version of my resume. Result: a new job with a better than 20% salary increase.
My wife and I discussed relocating to Mid-Atlantica to be closer to her folks (health problems), and I updated my resume with a PHL address and made it searchable on Dice. Result: I was hammered with calls. I put the resume up at 2300 on a Sunday night and got my first call at 0745 the next morning. After just two days I had to make my resume non-searchable, as I just couldn't keep up.
From the job descriptions I was sent, it looks like Spring and Hibernate are the must-have buzzwords, along with SOA and web services. Lots of servlet and JSP interest, more JSF than Struts, not too much EJB or JMS (although SOA often implies an ESB, and it's hard to imagine an ESB that doesn't need some JMS knowledge at some point).
Posted by: tmnelson on October 29, 2007 at 12:48 PM
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I don't know if I was a special case for some reason, but I was hired over the phone after being on the market for 3 days. Hibernate/Spring still goes a long way...
Posted by: brintoul on October 29, 2007 at 02:58 PM
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best wishes! thanks for all the great articles! and keep blogging! :)
Posted by: evanx on November 01, 2007 at 08:20 AM
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Good luck to you John. Have always enjoyed your posts. Here's hoping you keep blogging.
Posted by: pupmonster on November 01, 2007 at 08:31 AM
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John,
Thanks for all the great articles. Continue the great work.
I hope the new job is challenging and is dealing with rich client Java. I agree with most of the folks here, regarding JEE/Hibernate/JSF/Ajax jobs. On the right coast (east) there are a handful of companies doing Web 2.0 Swing development. J2ME is starting to pick up also. It's like the late 90's again yay.
Carl
Posted by: carldea on November 11, 2007 at 09:40 PM
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