Showing posts with label catch-22. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catch-22. Show all posts

Saturday, October 30, 2010

How to Overcome the Catch-22 of Finding a Job with No Experience

I got an e-mail the other day about the tech job market. I'll let it speak for itself:
How to Overcome the Catch-22 of Finding a Job without ExperienceI am unemployed, and the state of Nevada (15% unemployment!!!) sent me to school. I studied and passed my A+ certification, but have given up on ever passing the Network + test. You see, to the person WITHOUT actual job experience, there is no way to pass 25% of questions on the CompTIA test(s).

FURTHER MORE, there has not yet been so much as one job listing that welcomes people who have just passed their tests and want to break into the IT field. It sounds like a classic case of 'catch 22' to me. Any positive suggestions???

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Comment on Google in Catch-22 Over Wi-Fi Data and Privacy by EU Could Turn Google, Facebook Into Privacy Felons: Tech News «

[...] The recommendations were made in a paper presented by the European Union’s executive body, which is responsible for proposing legislation and enacting standards for the EU and consists of a cabinet with 27 commissioners, one from every member state. The European community has been fairly hard-nosed on privacy as it applies to services like Facebook and Google’s Street View, which has been criticized for a number of reasons, and faced potential restrictions from European states even before the company admitted that its Street View cars were inadvertently capturing personal data. [...]

Post originale: http://gigaom.com/2010/05/27/google-in-catch-22-over-wi-fi-data-and-privacy/#comment-302094